leftofcentre4d ago
Ben Lockwood, PhD
I’m as fascinated by space exploration as the next guy, but it doesn’t seem like we should be making it a priority when we have so many issues to solve on this planet–like climate change, biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, mass extinction, human suffering, etc etc
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Show threadMartin Rundkvist5d ago

@benlockwood Cf. war expenses.

But really: crewed space missions are just a way to entertain the tax payers so they fund actual science missions, which aren't crewed and so they find them boring.

#space

Show threadLes Lore5d ago

@benlockwood Yep. Big fan through Gemini and Apollo...

but I was a pre-teen

Mature people don't fly rockets for fun.

Show threadWhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮5d ago
@benlockwood The billionaires could solve all of these at a stroke.
I do take your point, and agree, but these problems aren't seen as problems to capitalists who always have unlimited money for bombs.
Show threadBen Lockwood, PhD5d ago
@NickSchwanck I’m aware of that. It doesn’t negate my point
Show threadWhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮5d ago
@benlockwood Yep.
And my point was that even if NASA didn't exist, that money would not have been spent solving these issues either way.
Show threadDonald Ham 5d ago
@benlockwood
Ben, that's a zero-sum argument I've heard since the Mercury program when I was a child. It's not either/or, we can solve fundamental problems AND invest in basic science and exploration. But we need to live up to our promise to do that, we have not done a very good job so far.
Show threadBen Lockwood, PhD5d ago
@donaldham “we can solve basic problems and invest in basic science except all of existing evidence shows that we won’t” yeah great point Donald
Show threadleftofcentre4d ago
@donaldham you should hasten your collapse so the world can heal from the pussy grabbing pig in chief pedonald cunt.. no one trust you anymore.
Show threadChris Hessert4d ago

@benlockwood

Agreed. I’ll get excited about our space program/NASA when our US Constitution is once again fully enforced by law.

Show threadleftofcentre4d ago
@benlockwood no to mention everything usa is tainted by the pussy grabbin pig in chief. your time has passed .