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Right so the whole generalization is meaningless. None of your terms are well defined or have much of a musicological basis.

Sakura is minor, so how can you generalize about Japan being major? A shakuhachi racous? Is gagaku 'racous'? dissonant? sounds that way to Western ears

Also Claudio Simonetti (Goblin), Italian prog band did a slew of horror movie soundtracks including Dawn of the Dead

Jan Hammer was a fusion guy, if you include him why not Herbie Hancock and Joe Zawinul? Stevie Wonder and Bernie Worrell (if you don't include funk, he played with the Talking Heads on their big albums)?

Are you implying that SF writers and space proponents are not biased? No one writes about a future where we all realize that human settlement of space is not going to happen because of lack of economics, no undiscovered magic physics exists to solve the travel times and the biological...

Within the next few decades we have a good shot at finding strong evidence of extraterrestrial life by analyzing atmospheres of exoplanets for biomarkers and even signs of industrialization such as CFCs and NO2.

No need to carry much fuel for propulsion - assuming that the ability to build a 58km long ship in orbit comes from robots, not men in suits, why can’t they build an arbitrarily powerful laser(s) in our solar system and send unmanned ships to build the same in in the destination system for...

Better?

Here is a ‘real’ example of plans for a generation ship to Proxima B - 58x6 km and several billion tons. It would take 400 years for the 1000-1500 passengers to reach their destination...

Why is death metal ‘raucous’ and classical music not? Most death metal is very precise music that requires real musicianship to play and the overall aesthetic of metal is not dissimilar to a broad swathe of classical music. Or are you defining the term by the amount of upper partials in the...

Humans are bacterial colonies - everywhere we go they will follow

To quantify this - settling the new world had a risk but a positive expectation- once you discount the payoff past your great-grandchildren’s lifetime there is no way to discount it to justify the risk and suffering entailed

North American settlers risked their families for a payoff of a better life they and their immediate descendants could experience - way different to condemn yourself and your succeeding 6-10 generations to a lifetime in what is effectively a prison for a hope that your great-x grandchildren...

ISTm that so many of these arguments are so far ahead of themselves - the technological prerequisites for seriously contemplating this -new technology, advances in biology, off-earth infrastructure, not to mention a sufficient history of interstellar probes to identify a possible target planet...