https://www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBMIzNo
Feels weird to be doing these “yay humanity” things in the context of the war on Iran. I suppose the Apollo missions happened with the backdrop of the imperialist wars in Southeast Asia (Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, …)
I’m sorry, but your tax dollars were sucked up by private firms masquerading as a national agency. How much have they now spent on this project? And all they have done is built a dangerous rocket from recycled shuttle parts.
I think you overestimate the benefit to science that this mission will bring and personally I see this more as a propaganda mission.
The lofty language about science, humanity and peace falls flat for me when the country doing it is the United States, and when the key beneficiaries will first and foremost always be the US MIC. This isn’t For all Mankind. Boundaries aren’t being pushed.
Eh, yeah, well. Such is the current status of living in the US until we get our shit together and get rid of the voting base that elects these people and empowers their industries. It’d take a rocket to knock them off their tower, but start knocking bricks out of their foundation and you might you might topple it.