• SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them]
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    10 months ago

    I wouldn't say putting a man on the moon isn't important. It's certainly very cool. But is it as important as satellites? Fuck no!

    • MultigrainCerealista [he/him, comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      And if it was important why did we stop?

      Like it’s cool in a “I’d like to take a submarine to visit the titanic” dare devil sense but why was it important?

      How did it improve the world?

      • SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them]
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        10 months ago

        To be fair, we went back multiple times, and india just put a lunar lander on the south pole. Lots of valuable scientific data about our closest celestial neighbor has been discovered through these missions.

        While I see what you mean, systematic scientific research about the moon, carried out over decades by multiple countries, however imperfect, is far different than the hubris of a bourgeois dipshit getting himself crushed at the bottom of the ocean, because he wanted to see a glorified cemetery and thought safety regulations were for liberal pinko cucks.

        • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          Fun fact: every crewed mission to the Moon in human history was done during the first presidential term of the Nixon regime.