• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    4 days 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.

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      4 days 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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        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.

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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      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?

    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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      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

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      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!