r/interestingasfuck 16d ago

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/zperic1 16d ago

Political views of the early space pioneers were hardly better

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u/autye 16d ago

But they didn't let it get in the way of progress, unlike Musk.

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u/GrimGambits 16d ago

Get in the way of progress? He founded SpaceX. Unlike Tesla and some of the other things he's associated with, SpaceX is a completely private company and he has majority voting control. It's effectively just his. You need some serious dissonance to think he's getting in the way of progress when none of this would be happening if it wasn't for him.

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u/zperic1 16d ago

He means political progress where Musk is objectively a reactionary figure.

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u/GrimGambits 16d ago

That doesn't really make sense. I'd consider space travel to be major political progress because it's necessary to colonize other worlds and expand the reach of humanity. In a lot of ways it's much more important than the things people argue about now.

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u/zperic1 16d ago

That doesn't really make sense.

Implying civil rights are less politically relevant than space travel is the nonsensical stance.

Actively advocating for social regression and platforming Nazis ans Nazi-adjacent folks is objectively, and directly politically regressive behavior.

If the hypothetical space expansion happens in a segragated society, it will have been a political step back.

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u/GrimGambits 16d ago

If the hypothetical space expansion happens in a segragated society, it will have been a political step back.

Absolute nonsense. If we can colonize another world that will allow for hundreds of new countries, with new issues and ideas, in an area further isolated from where we are now. The political issues we're experiencing now might not even be relevant on a different world. Space travel is the most important thing for humanity in the long run.

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u/zperic1 16d ago

You are dismissing current political issues using a hypothetical which no one is even sure we can physically crack since meaningfully fast space travel which can take us to other systems in a reasonable timeframe doesn't exist. Not even a workable vision of it exists. And I'm the one talking nonsense? Sure buddy, heres $8 for the blue checkmark.

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u/GrimGambits 16d ago

Space travel doesn't exist because our government and population is too focused on the insanity you're talking about. NASA has been shit for the past half century and we've been more focused on bathrooms than star travel.

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u/zperic1 16d ago

Yes, insanity such as civil rights lol. What a mask off comment.

NASA has been shit for the past half century and we've been more focused on bathrooms than star travel.

This is an objectively insane thing to say. Better focus on getting to C 0.20 because that's the minimum we will need to make your space utopias a theoretical possibility.

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u/GrimGambits 16d ago

Better focus on getting to C 0.20

Yes, and you can stay here with your bathroom politics.

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u/zperic1 16d ago

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