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What a stupid example of false equivalence. The opposite is true. The Apollo program led to huge technological advances that also led to advances in medicine.
Yes but you see, funny tweet go haha facts irrelevant
Imagine if we actually tried to improve things without doing stupid space shit for nazi missile nerds and their vile menagerie of mass murderers ?
Doing “stupid space stuff” in no way prevents us from improving things. The NASA budget is not even a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. And getting rid of the nazi nerds is an entirely different conversation.
In a way he’s right, the space race was really a dick-measuring contest against the ruskies to demonstrate launch capabilities.
But yeah, we’ve gotten a lot more from NASA than just winning a dick-measuring contest.
We spend on space research about 3% the money we spend on military. Is this really the priority?
I don’t think I would call Buzz Aldrin “boring.”
I wouldn’t call him anything. He’s got a mean right hook
And that’s sober. The rest of him gets mean when he isn’t.
Neil was boring by most standards though. He was a boy scout with a death wish. Later on he got interesting by his hometown’s standards and painted his barn purple.
He gets to live life being known as “Buzz”.
How does life get better than that?Watch out, he’s a fighter.
I wish we would fund both. And socialized medicine.
And end hunger and homelessness.
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We could. But think of the shareholders.
we would all be ‘shareholders’ of public services for public good.
That sounds like less money in my bank account, and how am I supposed to feel superior towards my lessers without denying them wealth that I only actively support due to my aforementioned superiority complex?
You are a stock holder. Your entire pension is mainly in stocks, i can guarantee it.
What a corrupt system, they have made us complicit in our own exploitation, if we try to stop it, we will be the first on the chopping block, it is monstrous that our pensions have been stolen and turned against us, and of course, WILL DISAPPEAR when we actually go to collect so they can put us in meat packing hospices for a quick, wished-for death once we are no longer profitable
Not just that. I actually lied when i said that “your” pension is in stocks. It is in fact the current pension for that are retired right now. Unless there are as many younger people working and paying taxes to fund your retirement by the time you’re old enough, you’re not gonna have one.
I think of the shareholders, board, c-suites, and all of their friends every time I gaze upon my Guillotine.
Wish granted. Instead of giving 3% the annual military budget to nasa we give 4% now. The new research in physics helps everyone and advances our society.
But just like with every wish there was unexpected bad side and it’s that even tho shareholder profit didn’t increase in the short-term, in long-term they got better lives too due to trickle-up economics.
Allergy immunotherapy is absolutely a thing.
Funny joke but I dislike the “boring men” part. NASA was THE example of “women in STEM” at the time.
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down here chokin’ on grass,
(but Whitey’s on the Moon)
When’s the pollen season on the moon?
I think you are missing the obvious cure handed right to you. Funding should be increased so you too can be free of airborne plant reproduction via the most sensible and straight forward method.
If you are unhappy with the scenery, I am sure the technology developed for lunar habitation will also prove helpful for polar habitation, where similarly few natural particulates are dispersed.Of course we should care for the vulnerable in our society. Of course.
But mayyyybeee if touching grass kills you, you’re supposed to die.
It’s a Louis CK bit for those who don’t know the reference: https://youtu.be/XLGzFQg_1xc
if touching grass kills you, you’re supposed to die
So like, inspire of the fact they need it, your saying 2/3rds of Lemmy needs to die?
But mayyyybeee if touching grass kills you, you’re supposed to die.
like, i don’t know this, but maaaybe a lot of allergies are symptoms of us living in a modern society, instead of in the woods. that makes a whole lot of differences and actually does some changes to our immune systems somehow. don’t ask me the details though, they’re nasty and hardly comprehensible.
If you are so greedy you could be a billionaire, then you SHOULD have died already.
There should NOT be billionaires, it is a deep moral failing. Likewise, even governments officials and party leaders, should never be allowed to touch such powers.
They’re joking by referencing a bit: https://youtu.be/XLGzFQg_1xc
It’s not clear that they are so I can see the confusion.
You can get sprays to completely alleviate symptoms. And if it’s a severe case you can take injection. There’s also inmune therapy to permanently cure it.
I am the first guilty of not going to alergologist for years. But after I started to go each spring I have it completely managed.
I mean… I wish I could blame the guy for not going to the doctor (Americans will do anything but try going to the doctor), but we’d also rather put people on the moon than give free at the point of care Healthcare to people…
I am pretty confident that mRNA vaccine research is going to lead to the cure for the common cold along with cancer, Parkinson’s, MS, etc.
We already have an effective AIDS vaccine now. We are getting really close to stopping a lot of human suffering. This is probably why the current administration is trying to pump the brakes.
the current administration is pumping the brakes not because they’re trying to stop cancer from being cured, but because they’re dumbasses who have no idea what they’re doing. don’t suggest they’re intelligent enough to actually understand the outcomes of their own choices.
Allergy desensitization therapy was invented in 1911. It’s just that your insurance company doesn’t consider it a ‘necessary procedure’, so they don’t pay for it.
You’re failing to understand the lack of hayfever on the moon
