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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 16 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I was a space kid, followed every space shot since 1965, was a super fan of Apollo 11, I had a subscription to Nat Geo growing up, just for the Space photos.

So I can't believe I'm saying this: Maybe we've gone far enough for now, and we should have a moratorium on space for the next 50 years.

We should concentrate on Earth for awhile, dontcha think?

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 2 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

I dunno, every engineer not working on space almost certainly ends up optimizing some sort of ad delivery system. The tech industry is almost completely enshittified.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago) (1 children)

I was thinking more like Climate Change and Infrastructure and whatnot and suchlike.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 1 points 27 minutes ago

That’s great, but that comes from funding those things, not shutting down a different industry. It’d be better to shut down non-productive industries like bombing brown kids in the Middle East.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

Right. Elon hires people on the basis they'll be making Mars travel possible, but that Starship is really for dumping metal all over the night sky.