• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Can’t we get a single article without mentioning how shitty the U.S is right now? Half of the comments here aren’t even ontopic.

    Going back to the moon is still an engineering feat, even if we’ve done it before. That was a generation ago, and all of those engineers are retired or about to.

    • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Can’t we get a single article without mentioning how shitty the U.S is right now? Half of the comments here aren’t even on topic.

      My friend, the toilet was clogged on the rocket.

      Toilet= shitty

      Seems on topic to me

    • TransNeko@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      I’m surprised that Trump didn’t sign an EO declaring that it was now the Trump space mission rather than Artemis II.

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        4 hours ago

        I don’t care what we call it, as long as we keep funding the science and engineering. The amount of people who don’t understand why we should do this stuff is astounding. And I’m honestly not the best at articulating why we should do it.

    • HubertManne@piefed.social
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      6 hours ago

      I mean I kinda see manned missions as pointless. I would like us to remotely create destinations before going through the added expense of people and I think the technology gains would be bigger.

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            3 hours ago

            I’m going to ignore the obvious Kindergarten joke (which I’ve made myself).

            I would be happy to send a probe to Uranus. We know a lot less about the outer planets bcz we’ve really only done a few flybys of them.

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          5 hours ago

          now we just need the construction of destinations. we are well on our way tom completing the initial preliminary work before we start what should be the main effort.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      3 hours ago

      Can’t we get a single article without mentioning how shitty the U.S is right now?

      So you concede this is all about distraction.

      Let’s discover antibiotics again!

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      I don’t see the point of sending people to the moon or Mars. It will always be insanely expensive to do anything there, always. What is there to discover that can’t be done with robots? Doing it for the poetic sake of doing it--“going where no man has gone before”-- seems impractical and wasteful.

      Yes, we’ve done it in the past, exploring, that doesn’t mean we must keep doing it as it becomes more impractical, and with what benefits, exactly? Exploiting whatever resources are there? Is that really what we should be doing?

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          3 hours ago

          Yeah, why do things! Let’s just sit on our ass and stagnate!

          Let’s do the same thing over and over again and call it progress! Next time you are in a hospital watching a loved one dying of cancer, you can tell them how many times we flew around the moon!

          We can’t breathe, the earth is on fire…let’s do another moon victory lap!

      • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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        5 hours ago

        The moon is a good stopping off point for the rest of the solar system. Launching interplanetary missions from the moon is much easier assuming a moon base exists

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          3 hours ago

          Why waste billions when we can waste trillions!

          you guys realize NASA probes have already gone beyond the solar system?

      • HubertManne@piefed.social
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        6 hours ago

        Im on the same page. I feel we should concentrate on discovery with probes or rovers and such and automation. trying to mine something robotically on an asteroid. if we can do that then see if we can smelt it. See if we can create fuel in space and such. I don’t think we will progress at all till we can be sourcing and manufacturing in space.

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            3 hours ago

            if thats the case then going into space is rediculous because if we at some point can’t source and build our there then there is no future out there.