We could just as easily dump the billions we do in weapons on space…
It would “stimulate the economy” just as much, while blowing up far fewer people, and they wouldn’t even be blown up intentionally.
There’s as much time between the Wright bros and the moon landing, as there will be between the first and next.
We could be so much fucking further.
Check out the show For All Mankind. It’s an alternate timeline where the Soviets beat the US to the moon and the space race doesn’t end.
I’m halfway through Season 2. What a ride!
Seconded, great show
Split it between humanitarian/environmental missions and space missions. The Army and Navy have astounding logistics systems that could be used to distribute resources, while the USAF and USSF focus on exploration.
We do some of that already.
I spent a couple months in South America going port to port. We had a bunch of military doctors from other countries even.
Just show up and give aid for like a week then off to another one.
ever since the assassination of JFK this country has gone downhill
The idea of weaponizing space…UGH, what a phenomenal proof that human beings don’t deserve to continue as a race. What a complete sewer we’ve made of everything we touch.
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I meant instead of spending it on rockets that blow up humans, we spend it on rockets that (hopefully safely) launches human into space.
Not that we should blow people up from space
I get that, I didn’t mean to sound like I was disagreeing with you. Just making a comment in general about weaponization of everything. I would hope that we value outer space as a peaceful frontier and not a place to blow each other up.
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Okay I straight up didn’t know IGN was doing reporting on things other than games now, interesting
Yet somehow we effortlessly went to the moon and back again in 1969 with absolutely no hiccups and pretty good TV imagery, even though we can’t broadcast from halfway around the world today without interference, and we can’t figure out how to get to the moon - somehow we magically did it all in 1969. What a time it was to be alive back then.
Yes, fucktons of money can do amazing things very quickly. Unfortunately, NASA doesn’t have that anymore.
All the footage you see now of the old moon missions is direct from the cameras, not broadcast footage. The first steps were broadcasted using a camera pointed at a monitor in Australia which was receiving an SSTV signal from the moon. It was actually pretty horrible.
Well maybe that was the big difference after all. I’m not saying the moon landing didn’t happen, only that it’s weird we could do it back then - when you’d think we would’ve come farther and closer to doing it again by now.
I certainly want to see us not just return to the moon but go farther and farther.
We wasted 30 years puttering around low Earth orbit with the space shuttle without making any real progress at all, meanwhile all the old Apollo engineers have retired or passed away, and the infrastructure to build everything doesn’t exist anymore (for instance, the F-1 engine. To build that again, you’d have to rebuild all the tooling and test equipment that was used to make it as well). So we basically have to almost start from scratch.
Sad but true. I only hope it happens because, I want my moon mansion and moon maidens.
Effortlessly? No hiccups? The Apollo program alone cost $178 billion 2022 dollars between 1961 and 1972. And I’m pretty sure that they had at least one hiccup. And that doesn’t even count the other programs like Mercury or Gemini.
I was being a little facetious, as in, they made it SEEM like it was effortless and no hiccups. I remember watching it all on TV, it did have more than few hiccups, but they packaged as if it was all seamless and “meant to happen.”
There’s so much ignorance in this comment, it’s got to be bait…right?
Read it however you wish, makes no never mind to me at all.
with absolutely no hiccups
So are you ignoring Apollo 13? How about Apollo 1? And what are you on about not being able to broadcast from halfway around the world??? Do you watch evening news, because I see reports from all over the world on a daily basis.
I was just exaggerating the way that the moon landing was presented to us back in 1969. If you weren’t there you probably wouldn’t understand how ‘without a hiccup’ was exactly the way it was presented to us. I’m sure there were hiccups on a grand scale, but they were mostly kept from the public.
