Re:Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronau...
by chasd00 on Friday May 19, 2023 @03:02PM
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Apollo was feasible because there was a very real risk of the entire USA being destroyed and every voter knew it. It was a race to technological and military superiority against the USSR and the Apollo program was a big part of that. That existential fear and risk doesn't exist today, there is no appetite for that level of commitment in the general population. AOC herself could kill a program proposal like Apollo with a single tweet about proposed bathroom door labels.
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Re:Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronau...
by nameistaken on Friday May 19, 2023 @03:23PM
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> AOC herself could kill a program proposal like Apollo with a single tweet about proposed bathroom door labels.
Hacker News becoming more like reddit every day with trash comments like this.
Re:Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronau...
by pie420 on Friday May 19, 2023 @03:42PM
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Hacker News was never anything more than a subreddit for elitist silicon valley VCs and FAANG programmers with 35 hours of free time per week.
Re:Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronau...
by 93po on Saturday May 20, 2023 @02:02PM
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
Re:Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronau...
by chrisco255 on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:04PM
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The lunar mission did not yield any kind of advanced military capabilities, though. We had cooperative space missions with the Soviets as early as 1975, when the Apollo program was still ongoing. See Apollo–Soyuz:
Re:Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronau...
by Gunnerhead on Friday May 19, 2023 @06:01PM
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I can’t believe this is the first time I learn about this. How interesting!