That’s pretty cool

    • skeletorsass [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      The technical developments of a space program go beyond just look to space for science. They create a novel problem which can create other technical development. We are speaking because of such developments. Communications, rescue equipment, medical technologies have been revolutionized by the new perspectives of the space problems. Modern digital image sensor used in camera, etc is a product of such as well. Solar energy cell as well.

      A novel problem can be very helpful and revealing. In my work even adapting a smaller version of an existing bus design revealed many flaws and helped us improve.

      • trans [they/them,she/her]
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        4 years ago

        i can understand that if we're talking like, 2019 or earlier, but there's a global pandemic happening rn. even if chinas got it more under control than most, i still think that the money going to the space programs should be put on hold and put towards global emergency aid.

          • trans [they/them,she/her]
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            4 years ago

            china put lots of money into this project. i think that money couldve been spent better elsewhere. i dont know what that has to do with the labor of the people working on the project.

            • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              The point is you're looking at it as purely a monetary thing, which is misleading. At the end of the day monetary allocation is an abstraction for the allocation of resources and labour. If the resources and labour (which were probably mostly spent before covid started as the majority of the project takes place in the 18 months before launch) couldn't be spent more effectively on fighting covid then it likely isn't affecting the fight against covid. Also it's really tough to argue that China's rocket launch is affecting their covid fight considering they have covid largely under control.

        • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
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          4 years ago

          That's extremely shortsighted thinking. You can't just temporarily halt funding and expect it to pick back up when you refund it. A year of funding stopped does a lot more than a year of damage.

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          The ship probably launched like 8 months ago and launch windows for mars only come once every two years. This isn't something you really shut down in the last minute.