As someone who used to be really into the idea of space colonization and space travel (one of those past likings I now scorn with all the fanfare around spacex, Jeff Bezos etc). I wonder what anarchists especially of different schools think, looking back on it at of the discourse around space travel, aliens etc can often naturalise a lot of assumptions about the world, that expansion and domination are natural so thus any potential alien civilisation (including ours) might find it advantageous with the trait even being selected for. Often the domination and taming of nature of animals and sometimes humans is naturalized to justify a dream of constant expansion.
Given the amount of resource extraction from the global south, from the peripheries internal to a country, is this realistic? Would it ever be? Even under anarchy? Would such a thing only be possible given non hierarchical rather than hierarchical, fearful or dominatory attitudes?
What do folks schools in maths, physics and science think about this? William Gillis a transhumanist said that every scientist should be an anarchist? Conversely for ecological, economic and even anti civ minded folks what do you make of space exploration? I am a bit more skeptical of technology given the rise of AI, and how it is being used for harm by powerful corporations
Is there some back to the basics that need organising first or perhaps there are difficulties human, economic and ecological that make it tenuous
Thoughts? It’s not a topic of knowledge only curiosity so I value any thoughts?