Seems like a pure waste of tax payer money Like imaginr literally watching your tax dollars evaporate in rocket fuel. Americans are weird
Taxes don't fund spending. This isn't how modern currency works.
>>43136189so you mean to tell me our perfect government is spending money on something that isn't helping their people, WOW i'm soooo surprised
>>43136189sorry peasant, the technological progress wil continue
>>43136189in reality it makes sense that now is the time that we start focusing more resources into space exploration because advancements in rocket tech directly help military technology. which is conflicting because I really enjoy aerospace stuffs but knowing it's all just a front for icbm research makes me sad.
I hate it. I hate this country's government and its corrupt contracting schemes.
>>43136189I would be really enthusiastic about people returning to the moon if I didn't known that the purpose is to ultimately militarise space more
>>43136189begone luddite, this is a technology friendly zone
>>43136189Learning about the universe is the single most important thing we can do as a speciesThe fact that people are so incurious really boggles my mind. Um, excuse me, don't you want to know about the circumstances of the universe? What's out there, how it all got there, what it all means. You can't seriously think that some stupid money is more important than that.With that said, I'm naturally skeptical of anything this administration does.. they're either gonna fuck it up or enrich themselves with it. Corrupt fucks
>>43136215We've progressed all the way to 1969!
>>43136334We know what's out there. Rocks and hot gas
>>43136353What about the stuff on the rocks? Are you a christcuck or something
>>43136334They just want to put nukes up there. Curiosity has nothing to do with it
>>43136363>Are you a christcuck or somethingNo I'm further from christcuckery than you in that I don't attach much significance to space rocks
So how upset are you by the infinitely larger budget being spent on turning Iran into a failed state on the behalf of Israel? Oh, we're also going to cause a global recession, gas prices won't come down, commodity shortages are already happening, and let's just cut off our European allies for good measure. They're also going to have to deal with a refugee crisis that will make the previous ones look tiny.>>43136350>>43136353You know there are going to be more launches right?
>>43136373>So how upset are you by the infinitely larger budget being spent on turning Iran into a failed state on the behalf of Israeli think we are all very upset by this
>>43136189i never understood how people arent fascinated with space and the unknown enough, more money for space research please >>43136334pretty much my stance but also remember if the administration makes changes it could take year to be noticeable
>>43136407NTA, but Space X's tremendous failures have made me more skeptical of space exploration. NASA actually has some semblance of standards, though, so this seems pretty cool for now, but I am skeptical of the idea of making a lunar base anytime soon.
>>43136447honestly im not american so i dont have the biggest say and i dont hear much about spacex but are they really failing??
the reason why i didn't watch the artemis launch was cuz i watched a video about the rocket like a year ago and they were saying it was using all the same tech as the saturn v which was making it more expensive than it needed to be. which soured me on the whole affairbut idk i guess i should be more interested. a moon base is cool after all
>>43136593Starship is like a decade behind schedule and ran out of all their money after blowing up basically every rocket without even touching orbit. Now they're trying to scam retail investors in a new IPO to get exit liquidity. SpaceX is good at launching satellites with a high-quality 16-year-old model, and Starlink has some use-cases, but that's essentially all it does with any amount of success.
>>43136686honestly starlink is really really cool but i know that in the end of the day its a for profit company and sending humans far away isnt very profitable so um yeah kinda
>>43136189when I see posts this stupid I really struggle to contain my anger, when I look out of the window of my office, I imagine that the people walking below are the sort of dumbfucks who'd say stupid shit like this, and I fantasise about dropping bricks out of my window so that they'd fall in their heads, sadly my life is pretty good because I actually paid attention in school, and I'd stand to gain a lot more than I'd lose from doing such a thing. With that said, I'll try to be kind for the remainder of this post, since not everyone takes the same trajectory through life. The purpose of performing missions to the moon, or indeed any scientific or engineering excursion, is ultimately to gather data, gathering data on the performance characteristics of the rockets, but also to make observations about things we normally can't observe. I haven't been able to read up on the specifics of Artemis as much as I'd like, but IIRC they're planning on orbiting around the moon and should therefore end up the darkside of the moon, which is notoriously understudied in literature. Something as simple as noticing that a particular molecule on the surface on the moon is 1% more or less common than we'd expect, could be a catalyst for rethinking the origins of the moon and therefore the Earth, to potentially rethinking the laws of physics themselves. I'm pretty sure China launched an unmanned space mission to the dark side of the moon that found exactly this recently with the presence of carbon, and now there are "Astrobiologists" getting funded to work out plans to use this carbon to potentially create farms on the moon in the event that we try to establish permanent bases there, in addition to other stuff that I'm too lazy to list. Point is, without "experiments" like this, science is ultimately just philosophy. Philosophy doesn't lead to the creation of computers that enable dumb fucks like to utter your vacuous thoughts on the internet. Oops, sorry, I failed xoxoxoxo
>>43136699Elon Musk's companies only can grow with the false notion they're "growth" companies. If business fundamentals evaluated Musk's companies he'd be just a regular billionaire you probably would hear about maybe a few times a year.
>>43136747Least psychopathic rightoid
>>43136747We already have computers. We don't need to go to the moon anymore.
>>43136785I'm actually a tankie>>43136794use your fucking imagination for five fucking seconds, please. Every tech pessimist only focuses on the present or even worst, the past, try and focus on "20 years from now" and maybe you'd understand why people make these decisions instead of handing out benefits to scum like you just sits around all day smoking weed and finger fucking their own asshole while watching twinkhon porn
>>43136868You are so gross. I don't want your so-called imagination. No thank you, dude!!
>>43136189space and planetary sciences are cool and the government should spend its money on cool stuff instead of bailing out billionaires, the miniscule fraction of federal budget for space programs is retarded to complain about compared to military or subsidies.i don't really personally care about the moon, i'd rather see science done at places like Titan, Europa, Enceladus, Venus/Mars etc, but the tech developed for moon missions will be useful for later missions.
>>43136868>i'm actually a tankie
