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So much problems to get mad about. Don't have time to be happy for some people so far away. We are try to survive everday.

Here are the reason.

You are not alone. What a waste of resources.

For me, I just don’t see it as the step towards a bright future that it cone was.

So we reinvigorate the world’s interest in space missions, then what? Every iota of evidence from our own planet tells us that businesses are going to own the moon, mars, and beyond. Wayland-Yutani is more likely than The Federation.

I just can’t get excited about another frontier for Musk and Bezos to rub their stanky dicks all over.

You already know the answer. It's because they didn't land.

Orbiting the moon - super cool. Seeing new stuff from far side - super cool. Emotional investment in something we've more or less done before? Well....

Which is actually a damn shame, but brains are funny like that. The entirety of human progress (and hubris) is down to chasing the next dopamine hit - and that probably includes the original moon shot.

Artemis is asking you to feel the same thing twice. Your lizard brain isn't stupid - it's just honest and lazy. If novelty is the drug, then this isn't a new drug. It's a carefully rebranded rerun with better CGI and a press kit. Plus, you've probably had a lot of other proxy hits to the ol' reward center so that something as big as "humans in a tin can fly around the moon" just registers as "meh - I've seen better on For All Mankind".

And I hate that for us.

it would be more notable if another country went to moon instead of the US, although not interesting still. moon is OLD NEWS sadly and coming out at the same time as other stuff on earth.

I don't care because it doesn't seem like a genuine mission to prove something. It feels like a purely political stunt. At least with the original mission, it was breaking a frontier on top of trying ot show off to Russia during the Cold War, but this time it's only the US flexing as mandated by the Orangegutan in Charge because he can and it feels icky.

Honestly, I thought for sure we would have had a permanent moon base by now. Something minimal but permanent and manned like the Space Station is. How foolish of me.

I feel oddly similar. I think it's that I can't cheer for America.

I don't think it's all that hot what's being done in contrast to what has already been achieved decades ago.

So, once around the moon, Hm.

On the other hand, stuff others already said. There's so much stuff going in, imo the effort could be used in other places.

I don't care about it because it's a NASA mission and I've noticed that anything American these days makes me nauseous.

Call me anything you like, I don't care, this is how o feel after years of america bullshit and decades of more murrica bullshit with their preprogrammed exceptionalism.

I look down upon them, I pity them at best

And then there is something as great as this and I just can help but feel like it's tainted somehow. I know it's an international collaboration, but still, the smell somehow remains

I'm sorry, but fuck, so much misery and death and suffering has been brought to the world by the US for so long already... Trump is just the next iteration taking this place to its natural conclusion. Of course trump is corrupt, the country has been through and through corrupt for decades. This is just a typical self absorbed American grabbing the chance geven to get me myself and I to the top.

So yeah, mixed feelings at best.

Personally, for me, I've paid attention to it some, but not followed it closely. I think a lot of it is just that I understand it so well and have seen it all before. I love KSP (and KSA is looking great!), and have played it with the real solar system mods. The launch looks better than the game, but everything after the game does better. It can look better (their renders are surprisingly shit still), and I can actually control it.

I love space information and technology, but this is just one more step in it. I can't follow everything. It's great that it's happening, but there's also a ton more research being done that I don't even know about. This, while impressive and good, isn't something new.

I watched the launch after it happened at 2x speed and saw some parts of the descent. My phone wallpaper has been set t9 pictures they took. I'm just not that interested in following it live. I know what to expect, and I'll hear about it if anything unexpected happens.

I should be way more excited, but the current administration has ruined everything. NASA is too focused on creating a moon base which is dumb as shit. Let's try and save earth before jumping ship to another planet.

It's been overshadowed by other current events. Quite a shame, really

I'm finding it hard to be happy about any of the positives coming from the US government these days. A couple of bright spots don't really outshine the depressing everything else.

I think actually watching some of the video would help with that. I watched some video of events while they were up there, what they were feeling and how much they obviously cared about each other and what they were doing.

Tonight I watched the splashdown and felt unexpectedly emotional about it, not sure whether it was contemplating the enormity of the achievement, or the display of the good and smart and positive side of humans working together to do something big again instead of the constant drumbeat of destruction, or maybe just that we didn't have yet another disaster.

for me, it’s the fact that it’s being used as a political tool by the usa to broadcast their prowess, that it’s being presented as a hopeful look in the future all the while the country running this is bombing and murdering hundreds of thousands, and that the companies benefitting from artemis’s publicity are mostly "defense" contractors like spacex and lockheed-martin, aka again the same people doing all the genocide

it’s hard to feel excited about it even tho there is plenty of cool science being done, that cool science stands on a mountain of tragedy and horrors

I think you’re asking a question only you can answer

It's hard to be excited about going to space when you can't afford to exist on earth.

In all honesty at this stage it's not that exciting. They're hyping up people going further from the earth than ever before, which is technically true, but astronauts have orbited the moon before just not quite as far in absolute distance.

So this is mostly doing something done before in the 70s. Rocket launches, grainy images of the moon from close up, photos of earth from near the moon and astronauts floating in zero G isn't new.

I don't blame you for not getting excited to watch long videos where not a lot happens very slowly, or reading press coverage which is brutally honest largely fluff.

The ultimate goal is exciting, but that doesn't mean every step on the way is exciting. I suspect the first moon landing will be of more interest, then the next one will not be, even though the landings are a stepping stone to Mars.

I mean it's cool and I love space exploration, but at the same time, it's something that has been done a while ago already, so it's not that impressive. Now if they went around Mars or did something nobody did before, that would be something else. As it is it seems a bit superfluous to the phillistine that I am. I actually don't know what the point of the mission was, I don't think major media mentioned it (or I missed it).

Because you can see it for the distraction that it is. In a vacuum it is a wonderful or at least interesting and significant thing but it is also clear that it's just a PR stunt by the US government.

That's not to belittle the training, dedication, preparation, and everything else that was done by all of the people around adjacent to or even inside the rocket. The indictment is not on them.

same here, i dont care about it all, while its interesting it finally happened, its not really exciting news, especially with so much other things going on, which suspiciously happening a the same time to direct attention away , the mission redirecting attention away from more important news.

I love space and discovery. I also dont super care about this because what is even the point of it? We did a fly around of a rock in our backyard we know super well already. Give me more JWST, not this

for me its not only the glacier pace of progress.. its also the lack of scientific motivation.

this didnt happen for science... its a political tool

It's because it's not a sexy mission. The astronauts never leave the ship, they're not landing anywhere, they're not doing anything that hasn't been done before, and the trip is only precursor for the cool stuff that's yet to come. Nobody remembers the space missions before the first moon landing, and nobody will remember this either.

The explicit goal of this mission is to not just to send people back to the moon, but to actually set up a base there, and that's exciting stuff. When there is an actual moon base and scientists can travel back and forth from earth to it, the entire world will focus on it because that's never been done before.

I feel the same apathetic "whatever" response. I love rockets. I love space. I struggle to care about this.

The program is almost 2 decades late and using recycled technology. It is literally using spare parts from the shuttle. I don't believe it will ever actually get to the boots on the ground phase. I am actually surprised they made it to this mission. After all the boondoggle from Boeing I really thought it would die a quiet death somewhere out of sight.

Not only do they have technical hurdles, we have seen normally safe agencies become political battle grounds. We see science becoming less and less important at every level of society. We are living through Idiocracy and they still act like we are the same country that went to the moon the last time.

If we see people on the moon in our lifetime I don't believe they will arrive on a NASA mission.

OP is Neo at dinner wondering why his steak isn't fulfilling.

I don’t like it way Elon Musk fans gush over everything Space X does… but I am excited that even with an administration and voter base that are clearly hostile to science, we can still DO science. So even though it’s not what I’d rather them do, they’re still doing science.