It’s hard to define what “Hexbear” is anymore, with so many of the posts coming from random Lemmy instances. Our brand and subculture are diluted and it shows. A lot more confrontation and friction in threads. So it got me thinking. How can we recapture the authentic sense of what Hexbear is and do something nice for the world as a community?
If you’ve been watching India’s moon mission, you know how happy everyone looks in the footage. They’re so proud of their work and the whole nation is congratulating them. Actually the whole world. It’s a massive publicity boost and unites an otherwise polarised nation. Well what’s stopping us from doing that? Think of all the cool things we could accomplish with a space programme. Designing new rockets, exploring new galaxies, maybe colonising a planet or two as a forum. We would let everyone know what Hexbear represents and could mine asteroids for orbital factories that supply our fleet of ships. One thing we might build is a Dyson Sphere, or maybe even a generation ship to raise the next ten generations of our families together on our way to another solar system. I’m a plant scientist and could probably even grow lettuce in microgravity.
We can do this. I just ask that you trust me and send me the money to do so.
This post made me realize building a space program is the nation level “solution” equivalent of “if we just have a kid it will save our marriage”
I’m waiting for my comrades to join me. Where is everyone.
here, i’ve brought supplies.
So is this going to be a kerbal thing or a modded minecraft thing?
This is the real thing. This is your chance to visit other worlds.
Hmm. I do hate living on this planet. Let me go flip over my couch and see if any change falls out.
Getting outside the ionosphere sounds great and all but I kinda need gravity for my bowls to work.
Moving to Saturn as a remedy for constipation.
As Hexbear’s resident rocket nerd/engineer I am prepared to take up the mantle on this worthy endeavor.
If you can design the spaceships, I’m good at X4 and know where to put them. The asteroid belt.
yeah man i flew a cardboard rocket to like 1700ft i got u
That’s pretty high. With our collective experience I think we could get a lot higher.
yeah sure. totally. just send me like a few tens of those millions and ill see what i can do k thx
It wouldn’t be ethical for me to take your money and then give you funds from the Starfleet budget. Instead we’ll let you pilot a mining ship and you can harvest all the precious metals you want from asteroids. One asteroid and you’re paid back with trillions of dollars of interest.
And how do you plan to get that mining ship up there?? Ive got u and Hexfleet by the throat now if i dont see the money flowing in by tomorrow morning you will have NOTHING
I thought that would be common sense. Design a rocket that lowers the cost per kilo into orbit to $10. Then build self-assembling orbital factories to design a basic asteroid harvesting platform. Use the revenue and resources from that to build a mining fleet. Snowball that into full orbital shipyards that can produce thousands of mining ships per day. Then everyone gets paid back.
no more half measures walter
Now that the dirty owl is a capitalist can we make them put up the money first?
I think we should all put up money. If all 24700 of us send me just $40485.83, I will have one billion dollars for this. I’ve already contributed $15.
Makes sense to me.
I got 6 maplebucks I can spare.
If I can convert them to cash, I will accept any kind of video game money. I’ll even sell your MMORPG accounts.
Yea 6 maple bucks equals like 2.5 freedom dollars.
I would happily send some billionaires on the Hexbear rocket to space
come together
You’re spreading FUD. I want us to come together hard.
I have an engineering degree
that has nothing to do with aerospaceand I would be willing to provide my talents for the low low price of 1 million dollarsWould you really choose $1m today over trillions of dollars once your ship successfully snares even one asteroid?
[shoots off a bottle rocket] There’s your hexbear moon mission, pal.
I’m so good at shooting those without them burning my hand. A rocket is the same principles with a different fuel.
moon mission
we talking real ones or just another deep space fake?
The real thing. You could be sitting on the moon sipping lunar water by this time next year if you just send me $2m over Venmo.
lunar water
[shudders in silent sea]
My pappy† always used to say, “you can’t have a nation without culture, language, and borders”. I think this sort of project could really bring us together by keeping our attention on our ideals for the future. We could call it futurism!
†My pappy was a fascist if that matters
We could go from a simple shitposting forum to the vanguard of humanity. The new cultural blueprint for our species as a multiplanetary civilisation.
I’m concerned about this idea, this seems like a lot of work to do on our own. what about if we piggyback on an existing project? I was thinking star citizen. they’ve been developing for a long time so the game must be both great and close to release. we could all buy in now and then do space things in that game together!
It wouldn’t stand out. Reddit already made Dreddit in EVE and it was accidentally wildly successful. We can’t match that level of success in Star Citizen since it’s full of well-established players. Space flight though is an emerging industry. There isn’t even a lunar colony yet, let alone a spaceship capable of FTL travel through the warp. With so many subscribers in c/science I think we could easily achieve that just by starting a megathread.
