my sense is it felt this way when we landed on the moon, too, but we haven’t sent a man that far in over 40 years.https://twitter.com/sama/status/961077086768259073 …
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and sure, these things take time! but we’ve had the technology to go to mars since at least the 70s, and we’ve had a lot of nasa marketing material with soft, general promises and no mission planned since the early 90s.
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technological development under elon has been incredible - spectacular! - but our martian problem is not technological. our martian problem is a decades-long, bipartisan apathy hidden beneath a cheery, “we can do it!” facade.
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people say they want to go to mars. but the actions we’ve taken, and continue to take, indicate no such thing. i’m not a cynic, i’m just nervous, and i wonder: if we can’t even muster the will for a single mission to the red planet, what hope do we have of colonization?
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the "why waste billions exploring space when things suck here" crowd is exhausting
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