i think this would excite me more if, say, less people were freezing and starving to death because of unexpected weather in ostensibly one of the wealthiest, most powerful nations on earth. like that sort of stuff really cribs my joy at expensive space exploration.
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Replying to @BAlyssaHauk @Nymphomachy
The money that NASA spends was never going to go to helping poor people directly. It was going to go into missiles to kill people or into space.
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @BAlyssaHauk
Sure. The system is broken. Also, mind you, money is fake and human suffering is being caused in the pursuit of a number going up for a very few people. It isn't a bad thing to try to learn something, anything more, about this universe.
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Replying to @phyphor @BAlyssaHauk
sure but everything we've "learned about the universe" from projects like these actually fucking sucks and is of no practical use to anyone hooray, today I discovered that Venus looks yellow
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We'll learn more about the universe from curing Alzheimer's than we ever will from hurling billions of dollars of tech out of Earth's orbit
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @BAlyssaHauk
It's not "billions of dollars of tech". 1) the tech isn't that expensive, it's the getting it there that's expensive 2) dollars are meaningless if you're a nihilist.
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Replying to @phyphor @BAlyssaHauk
programming and dev manpower= billions of dollars of tech. and manpower isn't meaningless.
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @BAlyssaHauk
And you'd rather they do what? Calculate more digits of pi? Make even fancier graphics to game with? Everything is meaningless if you're a nihilist. And if you're not then why do you value some things over others?
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Replying to @phyphor @BAlyssaHauk
I'm not a nihilist. I literally have never identified as a nihilist. (I'm religious.) if any sum of money above fifty million dollars is going to be spent, I want it to be put towards making human being's lives better. putting robots on Mars doesn't. It's a very expensive hobby.
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*shrug* It's getting done for the price of maybe 8 or 9 Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justices It's really not that expensive at all
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I mean look if you're gonna talk about selfish Americans spending money on stuff that makes us happy while others suffer The UN says that it would cost $30 billion to end world hunger every year
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
If you canceled Perseverance entirely and put all $2.75 billion meant for those eleven years into one year of feeding people, you'd barely make a dent
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