Anybody up there in space next year? Yeah, you’re screwed

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    NASA getting press and good PR for a rocket launch and return to the moon.

    Administration: “Oh you like that? Fuck you. It’s trashed, now, because we fucking hate you.”

    I think they are just trying to be as hateful as possible.

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    I’m just… so tired. As a non-tankie leftist that loves space, I only find pain in the industry. From the “commies” in the USSR internally competing themselves to death, to the amazing strides in historic American spaceflight being powered by LITERAL NAZIS, to the stagnation of space innovation because of capitalist dickheads dragging out government contracts, to space funding and long-term projects being at the mercy of political football like this. Also the most advanced, successful, and innovative launch provider has their name attached to a fucking bitch-ass wannabe nazi edgelord. Also, most other space fans are either bootlickers or privileged dickhead “i JuSt DoN’t LiKe PoLiTiCs” types. Also, there are so many ways to be more environmentally friendly with space that are increasingly being ignored. Also, the involvement of capitalism making Kessler syndrome an effective inevitability. Also, most other leftists’ aggressive ignorance about the benefits and importance of space in favor of the unspoken premise of attaching anything space program to ‘right-wingness’. Also, the general public just being so ridiculously apathetic toward something that benefits literally everybody by gigantic orders of magnitude. Also, tankies and their extreme ignorance as to what a “space race” even is.

    I’m just tired, man. Please just fund space good, thanks. Also, please fund clean orbit program many good, thanks.

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      There’s a lot to be down about regarding the space industry these days as a lefty, LEO getting stuffed with amazon and spacex’s govt subsidized spy satellites that deorbit every couple of years is pretty distressing. I wish the billions those companies took went to expanding NASA’s budget instead even if the MIC beauracracy is invariably messy

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    3 days ago

    The loss of scientific progress is a small price to pay so that the US can sustain the war with Iran for - *does the math* - like 2 more days? Hmmmm…

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      Well, that’s not really how that works. SpaceX doesn’t compete with NASA. In fact, a good portion of funding for their programs comes from NASA. And to call SpaceX the temu of space is pretty silly considering how much more reliable and advanced they are as a launch provider over everyone else on the planet. They’ve dramatically dropped launch costs in the last decade, made landing first stage boosters a boring routine thing, and caught a flying skyscraper from the sky three fucking times. Everyone else is just so far behind and still trying to play “old space” where they drag out government contracts on super dated hardware. Unfortunately, they have a real piece of shit attaching his name to them, clouding the judgement of SpaceX because of their [extremely warranted and correct] hate for elon. Also Unfortunately, that same dipshit might run them into the ground now that he’s making them go public.

      I get the hate considering basically literally every other company he’s had a hand in has been pretty shit, however, SpaceX is an exception. And it’s in no small part due to the execs at SpaceX doing a decent enough job of keeping nazi elmo away.

  • Rusticus@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Orange shitstain hates when the focus is off him. Okay, let’s talk more about the Donstein files.