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  • morto@piefed.social
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    vor 6 Tagen

    When people first saw news about humans reaching the moon, it was a feeling that we today can’t even fully understand. It was the unimaginable becoming true, the thing from science fiction. It was a great display of what our science and technology were capable of. People were in awe, shocked, in disbelief, all at the same time, for a long time.

    Now, the empire is so decadent, that the only thing they can try is a remake of the same feat. They think they can choose how history will be written, but future historians will very likely describe this as a desperate move from a crumbling power.

    • CannonFodder@lemmy.world
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      vor 6 Tagen

      Yes, but this is really the first step of a manned mars mission. Once we had been to the moon, it didn’t really have much value doing it more, it’s just a dead rock.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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        vor 5 Tagen

        2022 wants it’s comment back, SpaceX failed on this project and burned $30B tax dollars while doing it. Oh well, who needs healthcare anyway, I feel fine.

        • CannonFodder@lemmy.world
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          vor 5 Tagen

          Yeah I wouldn’t say this has been rolled out well. I just saying why we stopped going to the moon, and why is might have value now as part of a long term mars project. The original space race propelled science and engineering forward incredibly - it probably indirectly helped your healthcare a lot. I don’t know if this effort will be quite as useful. But we should be able to fund space exploration as well as healthcare - it’s just a political choice.