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Do people really feel like "yeah, we went 9 times, that's enough, no need to ever send anyone again"?
To everyone saying "we've done this before" or "we're not even landing" - we have sent humans to the Moon a total of 9 times. This is the 10th. Nobody has been out there in 50+ years. We've only landed on the Moon 6 times, and this mission is a stepping stone to future manned landings. Do people really feel like "yeah, we went 9 times, that's enough, no need to ever send anyone again"?
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I’m not sure I’m following. Do most people not care because of the environment? Because that’s certainly not the case. Most people don’t care about the environment either. Plus, do you not have any other interests besides the state of the world? No interest in entertainment or sports or tech news at all? I doubt that if you’re on HN. My bet is that you wouldn’t care even if the world was objectively better than ever.…
A big difference from 1960s and 70s in US is that 60s and 70s were a time of hope. Today that hope is not there. I am a scientist and I am stoked about moon missions. But I can see why todays people won't care about it much. Today mesaaging around space feels like rich peoples hobby and war weapns more than science. Just see how stoked people were about JWST
That’s… not true at all. You’re not a history guy, are you?
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There's no scientific reason to go back to the moon though. It's just American chest thumping. I am interested in space, I would prefer we are spamming drones to explore the solar system. But science is boring.
Artemis is chest thumping. Sending robots on the other hand, very cool and interesting.
It hasn't been very well marketed. NASA lost a lot of their budget and they're not spending so much on outreach. I didn't know it was happening at all until launch day.
I grew up admiring the Apollo mission and the likes. Nowadays, I recognise that it is heavy engineering, but I am not so impressed by the fact that we are throwing so much resources at something that we already know we can do. In fact, we have had humans surviving in space for decades now. It's costing a lot, it's not bringing much. But more than that: we have much more important problems to solve, starting with our…
> we are throwing so much resources at something that we already know we can do. No, "we" knew how to do it with 10x more money and people on the board, in a very unsafely manner. It was a few times muscle flex and thats why it stopped. Making entire thing routine, cheap and safe is something else, and "we" don't know yet how to do that, or we would have at least few scientists constantly on the Moon. It's a differen…
"Hey, humans flew, cool, now let's get on with a Great War or something…"
While there are many very bad problems on the Earth, this is something that can make me feel a little better about mankind, perhaps give me hope? And I think I would be less happy if we were not doing it.
To everyone saying "we've done this before" or "we're not even landing" - we have sent humans to the Moon a total of 9 times. This is the 10th. Nobody has been out there in 50+ years. We've only landed on the Moon 6 times, and this mission is a stepping stone to future manned landings. Do people really feel like "yeah, we went 9 times, that's enough, no need to ever send anyone again"?
I think there's a war in the middle east. And a circus back home. Think those are hogging the spotlight right now.
Would you have been uninterested in Apollo at the time because of the Vietnam war? Or are you maybe just generally uninterested in space exploration?
We are literally bombarded with information every waking moment of our lives, and consume more highly-emotional information to take a break from too much information.