Watched the livestream of the SpaceX landing today and all I saw was workers--hundreds an hundreds them, pulling off an incredibly difficult thing by working together.
Watched the news coverage and all I saw was a dipshit failson of some apartheid emerald miner--and a bunch of tech bros making the soy face in the comments.
Shit sucks.
True, but during the Apollo program there was a big focus on the fact that it was a team effort. Mostly because the government wanted people to become scientists so we could better fight the Reds (or at least, become science-literate enough to fight in a Pentomic division). Nowadays they know that getting advanced education is unachievable for most people, so they don't even try that angle.
Also, the "great men" of the Apollo program were all Nazis, maybe that forced them to spread the credit around a bit.
There was also a lot of racism so they spread that credit around a bit but they sure skipped over the women and people of color who contributed.
I didn't know that about the Apollo program
Does this mean we only succeeded technologically due to a bunch of scientists america didn't even educate? Or at least to enough of a degree that one of our biggest achievements (citation needed) can be attributed to post war immigration?
Check out Operation Paperclip. Basically, the Nazis had the first rockets and both the USSR and the US scrambled to import as much of that technology through human resources (and some blueprints too, probably) into their respective states after the war. At least that's how I learned it, not a history buff, please don't call me a Wehraboo
Also, the “great men” of the Apollo program were all Nazis
Robert Goddard says screw you
Haha, I appreciate the Robert Goddard defense brigade showing up, but you're two months late on this post. You'll find no Goddard hate over here though.
Couldn't agree more, I've always had a massive interest in space advocacy but I can't think of anything worse than polluting space with Capitalism.
Yeah space travel is cool as shit, but under capitalism it's just going to be yet another toy for the rich and a way to make the money number go up.
Yeah, can't wait for the only connection the average person has to the final frontier be Jake Paul livestreams or some horseshit
There's actually an anime called Planetes where space has been privatized, and the less wealthy countries are basically [economically] barred from participating. It leads to certain activist sects trying to level the scales by doing space terrorism because it is the only recourse they are left with
:anxious face with sweat:
And the Soviet Space program did planets other than Mars too. All that capitalist innovation and still no Venus cloud cities...
God I love the venus cloud cities concepts so fucking much. It honestly seems like a much better idea than going to goddamn Rust World
Seeing friends who idolized Elon Musk now say "yeah he is an idiot that cant be taken seriously" is one of my favorite parts of this year
There are still thousands more who rush to defend him and honestly believe he's a super genius human savoir. They actually believe him when he says he's SpaceX's lead engineer.
Don't worry, Capitalists are building the skyhook we'll hang them with. The L5 Free Communities and the Martian Autonomous Workers Democratic Republic are just a matter of time.
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https://youtu.be/T7si5i8DKuU
This scene matches my energy level regarding everything from Covid to Climate Change.
Nationalizing SpaceX is the first step to making it through the great filter.
https://twitter.com/RefuseRaccoon/status/1289746007236866049 How I feel whenever I see his image.
he ruined it by acting as any capitalist acts in any business? or did he ruin by resurrecting from the graveyard of dick measuring contests of Cold War
some space travel is better than none, and we can hope that SpaceX's success spark another competition between nations in the realm of space travel.
sorry to say, reading tech bro comments is all on you. They are cancerous in the best of times
