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submitted 23 hours ago by arbilp3@aussie.zone to c/worldnews@aussie.zone

Ooo, me so sad...

Call me old-fashioned (I am a bit) but these effing billionaires burn money and pollute their undeserving little botoxed faces off while there is so much that such money could do to improve conditions here on Earth.

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[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 3 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] arbilp3@aussie.zone 2 points 19 hours ago

I don't see that as advancing humans.

[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 0 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

So you don't think much of Starlink? Reusable rockets?

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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.

[-] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 3 points 13 hours ago

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.

[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone -1 points 17 hours ago

Sattelote internet sucks.

Yeah it did, until starlink came along

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