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[–] Yankee_Self_Loader@lemmy.world 33 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

Ok I’m going to be that guy who sounds like a musk fanboy but rest assured I fucking hate that Nazi. That said, people don’t care about spacex launches because they have become so routine as to be boring.in a historical context there came a point where people stopped caring about airplanes because they stopped crashing. This is good. Rockets becoming reliable enough to become boring and routine is a net gain for humanity. I just wish spacex weren’t owned by that goose stepping fascist

[–] gurty@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Agreed. I think people need to understand that Musk isn’t a scientist, he’s just the money. The actual people working at SpaceX are doing great stuff.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Youngsters don't realize that people became fucking bored with the Apollo missions after 11. Apollo 13 generated some buzz because the crew was probably going to die, but that's it. Same thing happened with the space shuttle.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Well also personally I lost interest because I got sick of Elon time. I'm pretty sure by his estimate we were supposed to have megastructures by now.

It's also worth noting that reusable rockets are interesting but if they just go up deploy satellite and then come back down that's not very interesting compared to going to the moon.

I know SpaceX are supposed to be building a lunar lander but we've heard nothing about that for years now. Where is it, Artemis III is going to need it in less than a year. Have they even started construction?

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 5 points 9 hours ago

I’m pretty sure by his estimate we were supposed to have megastructures by now.

This exactly. Musk has been talking ginormic shit for decades, and delivered peanuts. Destroying the USA in the process.

How good is the re-usability even going? That's the only plus I see wrt SpaceX.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

boring

Another E Musk company. (sorry, couldn't resist)

But isn't "going further than ever before (humaned)" a bit different from "launching another dozen or so satellites into orbit"?

[–] DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 0 points 6 hours ago

I wouldn't be into SpaceX if it were owned by the nicest capitalist on Earth. I just want one thing to be free from capitalist exploitation. Swiftly followed by everything else.

[–] Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

We stopped the space exploration shit on our own and I suspect the lack of interest in Artemis has less to do with Elon blowing rockets up, sending a car into space, and using it as another portal for him to be the biggest fucking government welfare grifter of all time... and more to do with the fact that a lot of us are stressed, starving, and/or worried about the near future.

The fuck does slingshotting around the moon do right now to help us? Does it bring pedophiles to justice? Does it give us hope? Nope. I was jealous that they got to leave this God forsaken burning bullshit planet for a few days.

Nothing good is happening at the moment. The bread is stale. We've all seen the circus shows.

I'm tired. I'm angry. I don't give a fuck about space.