Split it between humanitarian/environmental missions and space missions. The Army and Navy have astounding logistics systems that could be used to distribute resources, while the USAF and USSF focus on exploration.
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We could just as easily dump the billions we do in weapons on space…
It would “stimulate the economy” just as much, while blowing up far fewer people, and they wouldn’t even be blown up intentionally.
There’s as much time between the Wright bros and the moon landing, as there will be between the first and next.
We could be so much fucking further.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 5 months ago
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We do some of that already.
I spent a couple months in South America going port to port. We had a bunch of military doctors from other countries even.
Just show up and give aid for like a week then off to another one.
Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ever since the assassination of JFK this country has gone downhill
tygerprints@kbin.social 5 months ago
The idea of weaponizing space.....UGH, what a phenomenal proof that human beings don't deserve to continue as a race. What a complete sewer we've made of everything we touch.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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I meant instead of spending it on rockets that blow up humans, we spend it on rockets that (hopefully safely) launches human into space.
Not that we should blow people up from space
tygerprints@kbin.social 5 months ago
I get that, I didn't mean to sound like I was disagreeing with you. Just making a comment in general about weaponization of everything. I would hope that we value outer space as a peaceful frontier and not a place to blow each other up.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 5 months ago
human beings don't deserve to continue as a race
Some human beings who are leading the rest of the human beings. Don't lump me and my family in with that shit.
MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Check out the show For All Mankind. It’s an alternate timeline where the Soviets beat the US to the moon and the space race doesn’t end.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I’m halfway through Season 2. What a ride!
USSEthernet@startrek.website 5 months ago
Seconded, great show