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Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA's Moon Program (futurism.com)

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Consequently, the South African billionaire has been put in charge of a so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" to excise $2 trillion from the national budget. Whether this advisory group will be able to take aim at the Artemis program remains to be seen.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I always love the debate about fantasizing about anyone going to colonize Mars ..... we're having a hard time sustaining life here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Musk is a bigoted lying piece of shit and also a Mars colony could lead to useful discovery, even ones we never could have anticipated. Science should never need to prove itself as useful 100% of the time. Many important discoveries were made by accident.

I would never ever want Musk to be anywhere near decisions about a Mars mission, or anything else of consequence though. Among many other reasons , he likely would prevent such unanticipated discoveries by being a stubborn narcissist...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't realize humanity wasn't capable of working on both issues at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

See the problem with that is Elon would have to hire more people, which would hurt his bottom line and require his money bin to fill at a slower rate. That's unacceptable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ SpaceX has hired a significant number of people at Starbase for the Starship program and are still hiring for said program