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Can't we get a single article without mentioning how shitty the U.S is right now? Half of the comments here aren't even ontopic.
Going back to the moon is still an engineering feat, even if we've done it before. That was a generation ago, and all of those engineers are retired or about to.
AFAIK, the service module is European, built by the ESA, so this is not 100% an American accomplishment.
This gives mission me hope. A diamond in the rough.
I mean I kinda see manned missions as pointless. I would like us to remotely create destinations before going through the added expense of people and I think the technology gains would be bigger.
Lucky for you, we have sent probes to the moon.
Unluckily, the next probe is set for Uranus....
I'm going to ignore the obvious Kindergarten joke (which I've made myself).
I would be happy to send a probe to Uranus. We know a lot less about the outer planets bcz we've really only done a few flybys of them.
The kindergarten joke was the entire point of the comment.
In your rush to get mean dig in on the previous commenter, you willfully misunderstood or misinterpreted their point.
What is mean about actually wanting to send probes to Uranus?
It's funny, because things I've watched recently have been pronouncing it YOUR-uh-nus, versus your-A-nus. Dunno when we made the change, but 25-30 years ago, it was butthole.
But jokes aside, I want to see something like the Parker Solar Probe, but out. Fastest thing ever created, by a large margin, and second place is the goddamn manhole cover. I'm assuming the science can't exactly slingshot something straight out like that, wave to Voyager Uno and Voyager Dos, and see what's happening.
I'm no scientist though, but let's go.
now we just need the construction of destinations. we are well on our way tom completing the initial preliminary work before we start what should be the main effort.
My friend, the toilet was clogged on the rocket.
Toilet= shitty
Seems on topic to me
I'm surprised that Trump didn't sign an EO declaring that it was now the Trump space mission rather than Artemis II.
I don't care what we call it, as long as we keep funding the science and engineering. The amount of people who don't understand why we should do this stuff is astounding. And I'm honestly not the best at articulating why we should do it.
I don't see the point of sending people to the moon or Mars. It will always be insanely expensive to do anything there, always. What is there to discover that can't be done with robots? Doing it for the poetic sake of doing it--"going where no man has gone before"-- seems impractical and wasteful.
Yes, we've done it in the past, exploring, that doesn't mean we must keep doing it as it becomes more impractical, and with what benefits, exactly? Exploiting whatever resources are there? Is that really what we should be doing?
Yeah, why do things! Let's just sit on our ass and stagnate!
Stop trying, idiots, things are hard!
Let's do the same thing over and over again and call it progress! Next time you are in a hospital watching a loved one dying of cancer, you can tell them how many times we flew around the moon!
We can't breathe, the earth is on fire...let's do another moon victory lap!
The world doesn't have enough supply of organs for transplant
We cannot grow synthetic organs on earth because complex tissue collapses under its own weight during the growing process on earth
Space has much lower gravity. We might be able to grow synthetic organs there.
When I'm old and my Grandkids can get full organ transplants with kidneys grown on the moon, I just might thank the Artemis missions.
Those things are not mutually exclusive. Why are you so angry about this when the military budget request this year was over 892 billion dollars?
NASA's budget is less than 0.35% of the what was spent the previous year, which was over 7 trillion dollars.
If you want to be angry at something, you should direct it toward the asshats in charge who refuse to fund our Healthcare, infrastructure, and yes, cancer research.
You're right to be upset, but you are directing it a the wrong stuff.
The moon is a good stopping off point for the rest of the solar system. Launching interplanetary missions from the moon is much easier assuming a moon base exists
Why waste billions when we can waste trillions!
you guys realize NASA probes have already gone beyond the solar system?
Im on the same page. I feel we should concentrate on discovery with probes or rovers and such and automation. trying to mine something robotically on an asteroid. if we can do that then see if we can smelt it. See if we can create fuel in space and such. I don't think we will progress at all till we can be sourcing and manufacturing in space.
Asteroid mining is ridiculous. Ignorance of both asteroids and mining.
if thats the case then going into space is rediculous because if we at some point can't source and build our there then there is no future out there.
I hope it goes smoothly. I read some troubling things about it, but time will tell.
So you concede this is all about distraction.
Let's discover antibiotics again!
I'm talking about the comments section here, not the content of the article.