I guess that photos of the surface of other celestial bodies is cool or something but think of how many PlayStations you could buy with the money you saved if you just took a bunch of worms-eye-view photos of Antarctica and ran them through a neural net
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Like, sorry, but this does not make my heart sing, especially when I think about the price tag, especially when I think about the labor that went into putting something into space we'll never get back I pretty much already guessed that Venus looked exactly like thispic.twitter.com/jKbnkx2UFi
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
I mean yeah but it's not that big a deal Like to put it in perspective the total cost of the Perseverance rover over the planned 11-year mission ($2.75 billion) is still significantly less than the check Disney wrote George Lucas to buy Star Wars ($4 billion)
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That's true But I could conceivably imagine the price of Star Wars being seriously deflated, like in terms of material considerations Star Wars is probably not $4 billion worth of content and making one man happy doesn't cause that much either Space costs are not so overblown
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Replying to @joegross @arthur_affect
I'm saying Star Wars is capable of being deflated. i.e., it absolutely does not necessarily cost four billion dollars in material expenses at fair value to bring a movie into existence. It is UNnecessarily expensive compared to space investigation, which is NECESSARILY expensive
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @joegross
Well sure But if you try to cut out the money people in our society generally spend for bullshit capitalist market reasons that's a tremendous amount of money, arguably almost all of it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @joegross
Yeah, which is why even if the price tag itself is symbolic I'm much more annoyed by the amount of manpower and natural resources and fuel that gets dedicated to throwing a bunch of junk into the sky with no payoff and no return so that a nerdy guy can get his science boner
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @joegross
Well yeah but again it's really a tiny drop in the bucket And it comes from an implicitly neoliberal mindset of putting publicly funded projects under special scrutiny while acting like we have no say in what private sector capitalists do with "their money"
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Trump's Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City cost close to half the Perseverance rover ($1.17 billion), lasted about the same amount of time, and now that it's been revealed to be a near total business failure, really did exist just to give one specific guy a boner
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