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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by snapcaster on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:39PM (#45673362)
>Want to impress the world? End poverty.

China didn't _end_ poverty but they did lift hundreds of millions of people out of it and i've literally never seen anyone outside of China give them props for it

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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by qcnguy on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @03:35PM (#45674082)
Really? I've seen the opposite. They get way too many props for it given that the main reason China was so poor to begin with was their own cultural history. You shouldn't get credit for solving a problem you created for yourselves.
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