Microblog Memes

SpaceX doesn't even send people into space itself. They mostly just send exploding debris into the ocean.

After the 100th launch to put more junk in orbit, it not only gets boring but it's also annoying knowing how much crap is being put into the sky.

I'd guess after the 50th or so launch to the moon that people would be less interested as well.

Yeah, I think if Space X sent a crew to the moon then the reaction would've mostly been the same.

Even to the space crowd, SLS doesn’t really introduce anything new.

But when the Falcon 9 landed, and then the heavy’s dual landing. That was hype.

since you know, actually LANDING on the moon started in the late 60s. It's been 60 years.

Yeah, but that was just to beat the soviets. After that, everyone forgot about space travel.

Also, before building bases on the moon, it would make sense to build Lunar Gateway on a LaGrange point. It could provide a transport hub to/from the surface and orbit, and to/from lunar orbit to Earth's orbit. That way there wouldn't be need for one vehicle that can take off and land on the moon, and travel between the Earth and moon.

There could be one class of vehicle for each phase. Another class of vehicle would handle transport from Earth's surface to orbit. So three classes of vehicle for three total stages. It would be more efficient this way.

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.

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.

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?

No, that’s kinda c/microblogmemes’ whole thing.

I feel this so much. I followed every NASA mission starting around 1965, with Gemini. I got a subscription to National Geographic because they had the best space pictures. I was an Apollo 11 fanboy, and cut articles out of the newspaper and put them in a scrapbook. I had models of the Saturn V and the Lunar Module. I was a hard core space kid.

But now it feels so empty. The entire world is a mess, and it's probably going to get a LOT worse before it gets better, and I just don't feel like cheering for my country anymore. I love the Olympics, but I couldn't get into it this year. This was basically Apollo 8, with more complex computers (that didn't work), and 1000x the budget. It's hard to get excited about re-inventing the wheel, especially when everything else is so bad.

The wealthy (and the MAGA government is just an extension of the wealthy) would rather throw their money away on rockets, than spend an extra dime on taxes or higher wages. If not rockets, than AI, or some other cockamamie expensive solution in search of a non-existent problem. I just can't stop thinking about what a waste of money all of this is, when America is such a shithole country.

I think it's *Artemis. And II, specifically. This mission was the farthest any known human has been from Earth. They’re doing several more in the Artemis line, including putting boots on the moon (2029, I think)

The space race is back.

I think that's just you.

And Starlink. We paid for it, it's ours.