We imagine going to the moon and planting a flag, going to an asteroid and mining, going to Mars and setting up a colony. And I think that expansionist mentality is very self-destructive, especially given the kind of precarious relationship we now have to the ecosystem here on Earth, because it allows us to imagine that Earth is disposable.

For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.

Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.

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