• MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Just about every rocket launched for a NASA mission was built by a private firm.

    You are implying what I am outright saying, that there is a growing anti-space sentiment growing within progressive movements.

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      1 year ago

      You’re just straight up putting thoughts in people’s heads and getting mad at them for it.

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      I’m very pro-space, however, we need to take care of people here first. If we can’t take care of people here, what makes you think it’ll be any better out there?

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        You’re so pro space that you’re using the same shallow argument people who are anti-space have used since the Gemini days.

        It’s a silly argument with goalposts on Teflon bearings, and ignores the benefits of space exploration to people on earth, and the question of existential threats.

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      Ok an iPhone for example was made in China and then you say that Apple is a part of the communist party

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      Just about every rocket launched for a NASA mission was built by a private firm.

      It does not follow from this that billionaires’ vanity projects should take precedence over paying their employees fairly.

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      Anti-space is not anti-science.

      Space exploration (which is not even the target of any reference in the post) is profoundly expensive, and carries comparatively minimal scientific benefit.

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      Just about every rocket launched for a NASA mission was built by a private firm.

      Maybe that should change.