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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by Me1000 on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:17PM (#33441449)
People were talking about "the world's problems" in the 60s too. Fortunately we still went to the moon and inspired generations of people to quite literally reach for the stars. The idea that we could simply reallocate the relatively small number of resources currently used for spaceflight, and that would make some meaningful impact in the world's problems is silly. There will always be new problems on Earth to solve.
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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by Moissanite on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:32PM (#33441675)
The resources are symbolic, but the messaging is terrible - "We fucked up this planet, but don't worry because Amazon and Tesla are going to ship us "lucky" people off to their interplanetary labour camps, for the survival of the species."
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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by Me1000 on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:50PM (#33441967)
Only the naysayers message it that way though. And it’s pretty disingenuous messaging at that.

But I guess you made my point for me… your argument has nothing to do about actually fixing anything, it’s entirely about optics.

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