• @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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      9 months ago

      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.