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America is becoming a silly place. Lumberjack appointed as a head of NASA for his loyalty.
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Jack Parsons was literally a genius though. Wernher von Braun's dad being Catholic is also not silly.
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>To address your question, what is the incentive for going to Mars To occupy it. Just look at Musk's t-shirt. Isn't the entire point of SpaceX to go to Mars? Everything else they do is just steps in achieving the occupation of Mars.
> Isn't the entire point of SpaceX to go to Mars? What? No, it is to concentrate public wealth into the hands of one man.
No one forces anyone to buy Teslas stock to make the price high. If tomorrow Tesla goes bust, Elon’s 400B+ of “wealth” goes bust as well.
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They’d probably launch from a sea platform on behalf of some random country just to spite NASA at that point. Look at that, Morocco beats NASA to the moon!
The Mouse That Roared?
The Mouse on the Moon… watched it with the kids a couple weeks ago.
So cheesy but fun…
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Yes, and three astronauts died.
Sure, I just don't think people reacted the way GP did when JFK said it.
The current admin is different, the times are different, the people are largely different, thus the interpretations and reactions are different
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#365What else are they going to use? A trampoline?
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#366current employee status
spacex: at work
nasa: not at work
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Which would be a salient point if _nothing_ of value came out of the space program. That's about as far from reality as you can get. The primary, chartered, goal of NASA is to create a commercial space industry. Ignoring this is a sign of extreme immaturity.
Space exploration is great, but manned missions are dictated by vanity and congressional pork more than scientific needs.
> but manned missions are dictated by vanity
We were last on the moon in 1972. We haven't been back since. That's nothing even remotely like "vanity." I think there's a vanity involved in making this type of comment.
> and congressional pork
If the public wants it then it's not pork.
> more than scientific needs.
"Scientific needs" is not a well defined category. Those who proclaim to represent it while expecting it to hold a higher value than the will of the voters are misanthropic bullies.
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He only cared about sending rockets up. Where they came down was other people's problem.
He was also totally ok with slave labor. He was a voluntary Nazi party insider and SS member. He deliberately chose to participate in Hitler’s totalitarian regime to advance his own goals. This kind of behavior should be remembered and condemned.
He was a brilliant designer, engineer, and project leader but he is an extremely problematic person for the methods he was comfortable using to achieve his goals.
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#369"The president and I want to get to the moon in this president's term" - Sean Duffy NASA administrator. A scary way to set a schedule on a complex project with lives at stake. They don't care though.
…or a back door way of acknowledging he’s planning on a third term. :-/
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The point you raise is implicit in the comment that you're replying to and your response seems to intentionally ignore the very valid point that a bad deadline in this context may kill people and have other very negative consequences for the program. What part of the comment you're replying to lead you to believe that the person you're replying to does not understand the value of deadlines?
With Trump, assume there will be massive kickbacks and corruption, most likely nothing useful will happen.
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