r/SpaceXLounge - What are your thoughts on the "anti-spacex, anti-space travel" culture that seems to be growing?
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Seems like the material human cost of space travel never even occurs to them. The poor indigenous people who mine the precious metals and iron etc. that make the spacecraft, the massive costs of feeding and housing all the engineers and scientists working on Musk's futile vanity project -- none of that is even on their radar. They reason that because SpaceX is more efficient and cost effective than Boeing/Lockheed/Northrop that Elon deserves all the praise in the world. In their eyes, Elon is "selflessly" dedicating his time and money to "saving" the human race by making it multi-planetary. The OP calls anti-Elon people "cultural authoritarians" fueled by "billionaire-hate" who want us to be "imprisoned on this planet forever".

Imprisoned on this planet???????

Are you fucking kidding me? Every good thing a human being could possiby want is on this planet. What's on the moon? Grey rocks. What's on Mars? Red dust. There's nothing out there. There's really nothing in space worth having. If you're not happy on earth, that's not a problem with earth, that's a problem with you (or the social or economic structure around you). Moving to a new planet is not going to solve your self esteem problems. That whole thread is just full of so much bullshit.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    So many of SpaceX's milestones are "first time a private company did <thing two governments did in the 70s>" and I just can't understand why that's something we're supposed to be excited about.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      :this:

      Like what the fuck, it's just private companies just re-inventing things done decades ago for the most part. The only thing of value so far from this is re usable rockets, and even that's a bit overvalued. The USA would be much more successful if they decided to work together, with backing only a government can give. Like NASA during the space race.