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Not only is Trump leveling science funding at NASA, like he did with the National Science Foundation, but look closely at the budget. Beginning next year at 800 million and by 2030, 3.5 billion (nearly 20% of its budget), NASA is required to work towards “Commercial Moon and Mars Infrastructure and Transportation”. The ultimate subsidy for the commercial space sector.
They also eliminated STEM engagement program, which provided funding for the next generation of scientists to participate in NASA opportunities. I can’t wait for all this greatness Trump has been preaching to arrive.
Shit on China all you want. I know I do. The truth is though the CCP’s already sending tons of rovers to the moon to find prime real estate and are heavily investing in reusable rockets like SpaceX. The US is gonna be humiliated when the next humans to return to the moon are Chinese nationals. Can we beat them before that happens? Yes, but we’re making all the wrong moves both through government policy and many private space endeavors. Musk’s already said he’s more interested in Mars for example. The Artemis project keeps suffering severe setbacks due to it being driven by politicians and not NASA.
Wow just think how much more they could accomplish if they could chose their own leaders and say things they wanted to say without being thrown in jail and tortured or killed and their capital was in Taipei and they weren’t held back by a ruthless dictator who was only supposed to be a dictator for 10 years but decided he wanted to remain dictator for life.
Agreed. I don’t like the CCP any more than you do but the truth is if you have long term leadership you can get some projects that would otherwise have been de-railed by opposition parties when power’s transferred to them.
Nobody will be humiliated. If China gets to the moon first, great. Science is science and the long term experiments that are really worth it take too long for the originators to learn what happened or the winners to outshine anyone. For fuch sakes we are that pale blue dot…even if China gets to one side of the dot, we’re still a single tiny ass dot.
I propose that we feed the billionaires to the zoo animals so we can continue to live a decent life.
The Gaza concentration camp nation and the Battle field of Ukraine have to stop. First item is to put put-in a box 6 feet under and fill it with acid so it doesn’t come back. Next take all the Israel commanders and give them jail time and executions as necessary. I can’t speak for other players in the game but you who don’t live here might wanna state it so I can up vote it.
“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere” -Asimov
I disagree. Completely.
Large scale mining on another celestial body is similar to AI. It’s not actually gonna happen in our lifetime we’re not as close as we wanna believe.
We are those people in the 1800s who think everyone would have jet cars and shit by the year 2000. Nobody is that close. Likely they’ll blow each other up and start fighting in space before anyone gets to mine.
We could do space mining today if their was any incentive to do it. There just isn’t any reason to currently but if we start using fusion power (which China has made strides in recently) it would make a ton of sense to get He-3 on the moon.
Hell I give it 20 years before a private company at the very least tries to move one of the really rare earth element rich asteoids into an orbit around earth. From the calculations I’ve seen we could technically do it with current rocket tech assuming proper planet alignment.
No we cannot you vastly over estimate the cost of bringing things in and out of orbit. Especially at the load it would need to be a financial incentive to create the infrastructure to do so regularly.
I’d bet my balls we won’t mine shit in space for the rest of the 21st century