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Man that is not the point here.. The point is that your uni now can send stuff to orbit when 10 years ago it was economically prohibitted. Elon can fuck off but spacex IMO is a net positive to humanity.

Yeah, it hasn't been cheaper, prices are pretty much the same and if it weren't for the US government funding them, SpaceX would have been bankrupt

The only trickle-down I believe in is that half that boy trickled down his mamas leg.

Satellites are why everyone in Africa has a mobile phone and they didn't have to build huge infrastructure projects to connect everyone, billions of the poorest people in the would have cheap access because of satalites which gives them access to education, healthcare information, tools to politically organise and all sorts of other benefits.

GPS is a service we all use regularly from the richest to poorest, hugely advanced and totally free to use - it's a literal lifesaver

Another literal lifesaver that's free for everyone to benefit from is whether satalites, when people get warned of incoming hurricanes and typhoons that's satalites.

The various global warming research satalites could also save our lives, and the lives of everyone in the planet.

And the things we have planned in space will help avoid resource depletion and allow development of far higher standards of life for everyone, mining titanium for example could make this incredibly useful metal as cheap as steel which would totally revolutionise things like water treatment and construction.

Yes musk is an idiot but that doesn't mean satalites aren't awesome

God I mean just the crack alone is bad but now you wanna smoke through old Nintendo plastic

I can feel the cancer in my dome forming as we speak

If my shadowrun players had their characters do this or something similar, I don't think I could say no to them regaining their edge points lol

Do you think your high will look pixelated?

Interesting, where did you hear this?

People have given up on actually swaying people, as it’s been seen that the most entrenched opinions never ever ever change their stance about anything, regardless of evidence shown.

The most enjoyable thing to do thus is openly mock them, making their entrenched lives miserable.

Yeah it's weird, I think a lot of people use being left wing as an excuse to give up on trying to be a decent person in any way, like 'I'm on the right side of history therefore anything I do us automatically good and right and heroic' it's annoying.

I guess the bright side is that there's a lot of idiots in the world and if they're going to vote progressive left as their excuse to be an idiot that's better than nothing.

Also I hate 'let's do a lefty podcast, it'll be 90% dick and cum jokes, 10% other juvenile shit and occasionally we'll mention something that happened in politics if we can get a dick joke out of it'

Is there a stoner engineering community yet?

Every online discussion has the potential of becoming the outlet for one commenter to articulate his personal retort to a fictional argument constructed of a thousand previous or inexistent arguments.

Technically they have, because the implication of the original post is that because Musk burned money sending his car to space, he had to fire 10% of Tesla workers.

On the first flight of SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket, a university satellite was the payload. Not only did the launch fail in just the first few seconds, but the payload crashed back. Landing in the shipping container it arrived in. First launches of rockets do not have good track records. Risking a silly car was arguably more fun than the equally useless "mass simulators" used on most first launches. If it were my satellite, I would not have wanted it on the first Falcon Heavy launch.

Going to space actually is important for a long list of reasons, has made humanity better and who knows, might even save it as we're on a crash course with this earth. I know, I know, saving it is easier and better, but interest in doing that can't be found

Darcy the fucking armchair astronaut over here 🙄