and that's... bad.
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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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
On the other hand, the film industry reports that the total US box office take every year has been $40 billion or so and rising for the past ten years
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
So if Americans took that money and they spent 75% of it on feeding people instead, that would be it Nobody in the whole world would be hungry It wouldn't even be an end to all movies, just *cutting back* on movies by 3/4
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