• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    I was a space kid, followed every space shot since 1965, was a super fan of Apollo 11, I had a subscription to Nat Geo growing up, just for the Space photos.

    So I can’t believe I’m saying this: Maybe we’ve gone far enough for now, and we should have a moratorium on space for the next 50 years.

    We should concentrate on Earth for awhile, dontcha think?

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      32 minutes ago

      Believe it or not, you can do two things at once. Some people are interested in space, some in geology. That’s fine.

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      1 hour ago

      I dunno, every engineer not working on space almost certainly ends up optimizing some sort of ad delivery system. The tech industry is almost completely enshittified.

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          1 hour ago

          That’s great, but that comes from funding those things, not shutting down a different industry. It’d be better to shut down non-productive industries like bombing brown kids in the Middle East.

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      2 hours ago

      Right. Elon hires people on the basis they’ll be making Mars travel possible, but that Starship is really for dumping metal all over the night sky.