• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Imagine if we actually tried to improve things without doing stupid space shit for nazi missile nerds and their vile menagerie of mass murderers ?

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      2 months ago

      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.

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        2 months ago

        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.

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      2 months ago

      We spend on space research about 3% the money we spend on military. Is this really the priority?