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Blue Origin rocket explodes during test in latest setback for Jeff Bezos-owned company
(www.theguardian.com)
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I don't think a single poor person would be better off, if no money was spent on spaceflight. In the grand scheme of things, space budgets are hardly even a rounding error.
I see it differently. Even one thousand dollars, let alone 20 billion, which is the ballpark for expenditure on NASA for example, spent wisely, would help disadvantaged people as well as nature. Even though it is a small part of the overall US budget, it's still a lot of money.
I am not against funding NASA, not at all, but the billionaires who spend money on rockets for space tourists and the like, annoy me no end.
Why? This is probably one of the things I least hate about them, at least they're advancing humans in a positive way unlike say a superyacht
Are they though?
NASA did shit and had to create new clever things for budget reasons. And the end goal was information, understanding, science.
These rich assholes are basically burning money trying to make Space Yachts.
I don't see that as advancing humans.
So you don't think much of Starlink? Reusable rockets?
Sattelite internet sucks.
For the cost of Starlink we could have run fiber everywhere, twice.
Plus any money put into Space X enriches Nazi asshoke Elon Musk. Even if Starlink cures cancer its a net loss because he is such a collossal drain on society.
Idk about the curing cancer bit but yeah, starlink can fuck all the way off. It would be a great worker-owned resource but it’s just greed for musk et al.
Yeah it did, until starlink came along