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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (31 children)

All these answers are so killjoy and boring.

Yes, fantasizing about billionaires fixing everything by making good on their bullshit marketing pitches is very exciting to credulous people.

Building habitats on other worlds doesn't prevent us from caring for this one.

If you believe that there's some magic means to have zero emissions launches into space that are in any way self-sustained without further launches to keep throwing resources after spent resources from an increasingly polluted, depleted, and warming Earth, sure, you can huff that hopium deep and hard and ignore the worsening material reality all around you.

Plus maybe trying to make a liveable environment in space can give us new insights in preserving the one at home.

You've bought deeply into billionaire bullshit and their bogus promises, especially as privatized space travel in the west becomes increasingly vanity tourism and marketing stunts. The accomplishments that such companies' underpaid and overworked workers achieve are not for the common good, nor can they be because they are publicly subsidized private companies seeking to maximize profits and expand their own venture capital appeal, and nothing more.

[–] witx@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 weeks ago (27 children)

You seem to be letting your hatred for Musk confuse you about space exploration. NASA and other governmental agencies do very important work when it comes to space exploration

[–] lunar_solstice@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago (23 children)

He has Musk Derangement Syndrome 🀣🀣🀣

Too much time reading clickbait

[–] witx@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Meh I dislike Musk as well but I don't let that cloud my judgement of his companies or science/engineering in general.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't let that cloud my judgement of his companies

That says a lot about you, then. The guy's a fascist but you don't care because so-true muh bazingamobiles and space crap!

[–] frauddogg@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Polly's Tenet: "I can excuse anything from anyone if it means my treats arrive on time". My parrot is literally more disciplined than these settler shitstains.

[–] frauddogg@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

He isn't even the guy behind any discovery his manifold bought-up companies make. He's just the nepobaby failspawn of blood emerald mining company money in South Africa; and as far as I'm concerned, that makes anything that comes out of his companies while he helms them fruit of the poison tree.

We do not support, uplift, or patronize colonizers, slavers, resource-extracting thieves, or any combination of the three in this house.

[–] LilyRose1919@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He isn’t even the guy behind any discovery his manifold bought-up companies make.

Then stop obsessing on him maybe? The thread was supposed to be about space stations and stuff.

[–] m532@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

melon-musk and those other bazingas are all the same

Colonizer fantasies and zero knowledge about how anything works

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