Comment on US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program

veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’ve tried everything except actually funding NASA, and they’re all outta ideas.

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  • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But hey we tried giving a shit load of money to a billionaire space nazi instead!

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    • toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Won’t someone think of the investors!

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    • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unfortunately that company is the best hope we have to stay ahead. With their low cost they can monopolize the worldwide launch market(except Russia and China). So that funding, strategically, must continue.

      What should also happen is funding spacex competitors, so we stay on the bleeding edge.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is China staying on the bleeding edge by funding a bunch of private companies?

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    • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe we need to give more to the space phallus that the other asshole billionaire built. Maybe that’ll fix it.

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      • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You guys male me wanna cry…

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe we should give money to fund education and research instead of banning books and attacking each other.

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• FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That goes double for our educational system

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  • pekos@futurology.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Grand Old Party, which is the Republican party in the United States.

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• demesisx@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I came here to say exactly this.

  Perhaps a space race with China would rekindle the motivation for our money grubbing demagogues to actually fund it.

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  • orclev@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, it won’t. They’ll just relocate to China, or maybe a super yacht out in international waters. They’ll continue milking every last cent out of the US until it’s a dead dried up husk of a nation and then they’ll just move to the next one. Their supporters are too stupid to realize where the end of the path they’ve been told to walk is going to take them, and they’d rather blame anyone else but themselves for all the problems they face. So no, a space race with China won’t fix shit.

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    • demesisx@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Judging by the state of the US, you’re much more likely to be right than I am, you cynical bastard!

      😂

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• Morcyphr@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, but Israel /s

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So expect a big increase in private space missions

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