Stamau123Rocket lifts off with four Artemis II astronauts on a mission to the moon and back
I’m having a hard time getting excited about repeating a mission that wasn’t even the best thing we did over 50 years ago, except this time with computers and 1000X the budget.
We did it more times after and helped research greatly. It’s like 2% military budget to run NASA so fuck anti-intellectual bullshit.
I’m not anti-intellectual, I was a true space kid, watching every mission after 1965. I was a Apollo 11 super fan. I built models of the Apollo 11 and the Lunar Lander. I kept a subscription to national Geographic for decades because they had such great space photos. I should be loving this.
But it’s pretty obvious that all modern space exploration is mostly about giving future trillionaires an option to get off the planet when we inevitably turn on them.
And Apollo was about planting the flag before Russians. Manned spaceflight was never about science.
Valid, but as a kid, I wasn’t thinking about it that way. As an adult, I am.
I just read where Musk has applied to add a network of one million satellites. The current plant for satellites between Space X and others means that 1 in 15 visible objects in the night sky will be satellites.
That’s for a total of 60,000 satellites. Musk wants to add one million more. That will mean that there will only be one actual, natural star in every 8-10 visible objects in the night sky. Almost all we will see will be Musk’s space junk…
The simple enjoyment of the night sky will be taken from every human now, or who will ever exist in the future. The night sky will be destroyed forever, just so the already richest guy in human history can get even richer. It’s more important to indulge him for the cosmic blink of time he exists on this planet, than allow billions of unborn people to ever contemplate the wonders of the universe.
That makes me think that perhaps we should impose a moratorium on space travel for about 50 years, and spend those resources to save our own planet, which needs it in so many ways - climate, infrastructure, society, etc. All those massive issues need to have the best brains and biggest budgets applied to them for a while.
We should fix our own problems before exporting them into the universe.