Emmet O'Neill
Jonas R. (er/ihm)You're right.
It's not rocket science.
raghukamath@emmetoneill I think both can go in parallel. Often the tech needed for rockets ends up helping people on ground. So both side should be encouraged.
@raghukamath Maybe they can. But right now they aren't.
America already landed people on the moon almost 60 years ago, and we've launched plenty of rockets and satellites since. (We've made plenty of ICBMs with this tech too.)
But we still haven't met the needs of our people. ~10% of Americans have no healthcare. We're told "it can't be done".
I'm not against science or space exploration, but we don't really need to go *back* to the moon to solve the problems that we face here on Earth.
@raghukamath Maybe I'm too cynical... It's cool to watch a rocket blast off.
But it's tax season and I'm watching my country build ballrooms for the political elites, wage pointless wars in the middle east, and try to repeat space missions that we already did when my parents were kids.
I simply don't feel that our priorities are in order.
If another country was doing it, then I would have no complaints.
@emmetoneill We all are now tired by the shenanigans of our governments. Sadly some also feel fear of expressing this. It makes us loose hope in the process and system. But then we should be optimistic. Every night is surely followed by a day. The problem both here and in your place seems to be from non participation of people. I hope people wake up and choose better, not just once but every-time, that is only thing I can hope for the sake of my (our) future generation.
@emmetoneill I disagree with you here. I mean not the part that U.S.A needs to be on moon or not. But humans should explore space. May be collectively they should do it. And they should also provide for healthcare and other essential things which uplift human living standards back on earth.
Not having healthcare and other stuff is a failure of govt. We should correct the failure but in correcting one failure we should not clamp down on other good thing that govt. is doing. Making scientific progress and also making progress in human living standard both are important they should not be seen as one or the other.
Not having healthcare and other stuff is a failure of govt. We should correct the failure but in correcting one failure we should not clamp down on other good thing that govt. is doing. Making scientific progress and also making progress in human living standard both are important they should not be seen as one or the other.
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@emmetoneill It's so cute that you removed your posts. Touchy, touchy. Try being less of a dick.
Fahri Reza 🍉There is all you can grab radioactive materials in Iran
Chao-c'@emmetoneill hello from country with (almost) free healthcare and education. People here are not impressed and lot of them vote for far right...
So whatever the trick is, it is not easy to impress people. And to be fair, the majority don't care much about rockets. It is marginal, traditional interest of nerd community. People prefere fiction over real life stories, especially if they don't have skills to participate.
humourmetom@emmetoneill Maybe the moon has free healthcare.
SupermoosieHealthcare, education, childcare and affordable housing in this economy?
Don't you know there is a war on? Those nasty Irans and
Venezuelana looked at us funny, so we had spend 2 billion dollars a day and send them all of our missile stockpile. Going take us years and hundreds of billions to build those back up.
Then we got to pay all our debt back.
And keep Hegseth topped up with steak and lobster.
Once all that is done, maybe we can have a look at giving my mates some contracts for Healthcare, education, childcare and affordable housing.
Anyway, got to go, my peace gang is flushing Cubas head down the toilet.
Orion Ussner kidder@emmetoneill It's not either/or, and NASA is a rounding error compared to other expenses.