• Darkrai
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    They’re not protesting NASA or any other public space agency. It’s the private ones owned by billionaires they have issues with.

    • @MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
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      10 months 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.

        • Franzia
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          410 months ago

          This is reactionary / luddite logic at this point. We can do both. Easily.

        • @MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
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          210 months ago

          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.

      • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        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.

      • @Manzas@lemdro.id
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        810 months ago

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

      • @unfreeradical@lemmy.world
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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.

      • Flying Squid
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        110 months ago

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

        Maybe that should change.