Yeah man, fuck the institution that gave us hubble and james webb, let's give it to checks note the nazi salute guy's company? Uh, no? Like that will obviously not be allowed to symbolize... look are you doing a "usualgerman" bit right now? Right now? Oh shit have you heard the Nazi thing before? Oh shit you're sick of it? Oh shit, I literally do not fucking care. No but if you're seriously like "let's let the american public crowd fund shit or something" or "fuck cosmology" (edit: note: I'm not a cosmologist) or "yeah these private industry guys really seem to have their act together", OK. Stay stupid. Shove it up your LLMs. Are you doing a bit. Are you? Motherfucker I am going to do fusion even faster now, to spite you. You're welcome. I know people in the "private" sector! Hi! Hello. We are all on the juice. We all have contracts. No let's break up NASA, and leave the breakup to the Nazi guy with billions in NASA contracts, just him, and some other known Nazis for henchmen, in the name of transparency and efficiency. I am sorry what the fuck is wrong with everyone? Other than not knowing what NASA does. I'm talking like, how can you examine the fundamental facts of this dynamic with Elon and the US government and say "y'know, Bullish". I'm sorry but that 's like redzone in the "you're gone"-o-meter
We’ve been “ten years away from fusion and abundant energy from fusion” for the better part of a century now. In the last fifty years, we’ve sent hundreds of shuttle missions into space to do … basically nothing. We’re studying growing tomatoes in space at a cost of thousands of dollars a minute. It’s not going anywhere. The most interesting thing we’ve done is space telescopes. Okay cool, we’ve discovered the answers to future jeopardy questions, again, at a cost of thousands of dollars to let some self important astronomers take pictures and write equations that might or might not even mean anything. If you’re going to tax me for space exploration, is it too much to ask that we make some actual progress? We’re still doing the same sorts of make-work experiments that we were in 1975. I just don’t see it. I can get behind the government funding medical research that might well prevent or cure a disease. Or to the FDA and Dept of Agriculture to control how much actual poison and microplastics are in the food supply. Those things benefit actual humans on earth. NASA has done basically fuck all, including building a launch vehicle (the boosters are basically repurposed ICBMs and the moon landing was a missile development and scare-the-USSR program disguised as space exploration). Now the Cold War is over and the Soviets are gone. We aren’t really going to go into space, and it’s past time to stop funding an agency dedicated to totally not being cover for a weapons program.
Thank you for your civil response. Now posting: The Chart (scroll a bit down): Look, uh, some of those things? Do you want colonization or not?? I'm not sure what it looks like, to you. It might look like space tomatoes. Do you think it is easy, getting a NASA grant? Do you think it is frivolous? Are all of your friends on NASA grants? In fact the funding landscape has not grown with complexity of science, just like in every sector of science, basically, and NASA proposal approval rates are now asymptotically approaching about 10% in every single size of mission and instrument development design, down from much higher in the past. Like 25% plus in the 90's. "But it's so bad now!" Why?? Why do you think that?? Because we're all strained economically? Yeah, I know! I know! And there's the richest guy in the world trying to dissolve something that at the very least requires more finesse than "oh can we get the nuclear scientists back that we accidentally fired?" I feel like I'm the only one reading more than a headline or two a day or something? I don't know. OK I'm almost done does anyone else want to? NASA gave you basically your entire smartphone, for starters. I mean what is this even what are we doing here. Here it's now in easily-digestible image form, maybe that will be absorbed?: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/20-inventions-we-wouldnt-have-without-space-travel/ QUICK, click now before the site is taken down and we can all forget about how NASA has ever done anythingNASA has done basically fuck all,
Totally. But RFK Jr. is just gonna sell you algo pills that boost your SEO for the low, low price of your actual health. Again, with all of this... I absolutely get peoples' frustrations. But they've been clearly lied to, and unfortunately, they really, really love being lied to. The idea that exactly zero people are OK knowingly spreading misinformation is baked into almost every silly little trite sociopolitical study these days, btw, and it's getting funnier
So the answer is to remove all restrictions and caps on pollution?