Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Cocopanda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because the last stage of existence on this planet. Will be febel plans to try and colonize other planets. Because our planet will start to poison us as a defensive mechanism. All of these Corporations need a plan to get off planet.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It would take a lot to make Mars more habitable than Earth. This isn’t about colonisation this is simply that it’s cool to build rockets.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s easier to terraform … Planet Earth!

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s the only planet we can terraform, we are nowhere near able to terraform Mars, not even theoretically and disregarding cost.
        Maybe in a century we can. But only maybe.

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  • gerryflap@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Imo it’s a good thing tho. Spreading our civilization across multiple planets is the only way to guarantee long long term success. Obviously we should also fix the climate change issue (and many others). But still, being spread across the solar system would give our species redundancy. An extinction event on earth like a large meteor strike would no longer be the end.

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    • Crikeste@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well good thing it will never happen. ☺️

      Imagine trying to undo thousands and thousands of years of evolution surrounding…. Earth’s gravity.

      But you go ahead and fantasize about us destroying all the planets in the universe. After all; we’re the only thing destroying ours.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      While what you said is true,

      i guess that most people’s motivation is rather the economic benefits. Think of it this way:

      The 1960s space race created jobs all across the US and inspired a generation of scientists.

      Mars settlement could do the same, but bigger. At least that’s the idea.

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  • too_high_for_this@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Feeble? But I think you meant futile? Idk.

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  • coolmojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, let spend money to fuck up other planets as well instead of saving this one. /s

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    • Cocopanda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s exactly what they will say.

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The planet isn’t doing anything, we are poisoning ourselves. Or as lemmy puts it “big evil corporations (which we support everyday because it’s cheaper than buying local/sustainable) are poisoning us”.

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• papertowels@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Reusable rockets, in particular.

  Imagine having a reusable car in a world where they were all disposable.

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