re: Space Enthusiast Thread

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Anyone against funding NASA is either misinformed, corrupt, or stupid

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I can't imagine that anyone would actually be against funding NASA. They have brought some of their problems on themselves. How do you stand there with your hand out and look the American people in the eye when you have lied, misrepresented, etc. To the very people that you depend on for your existence.

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I'd love to get in an astronomy club and get a telescope again. NOLA probably has one but I doubt the bayou does

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Theres was a great observatory in Schreiver called the St. George Observatory. It closed about 4-5 years ago to a growin city and to much light. There may be some leftove enthusiasts in the area.

I,am all for,exploration and space is,quie obviously,the new frontiers. But time is the largely unspoken factor. We haven't made huge strides in 25 years? Big fricking deal. 25 years in the grand scheme of themes does not even exist. It is a speck,on a speck on a speck on a spec on a spec of absolute nothingness. We can only see through our biases and just like religions for the entire whole of human history(which is a speck on a proton on a cell on nothing organism), we try to make sense of only what we're given-which is nothing. Our egos want to tell us we're special, living in the end tiimes(religion) or near the singularity (kurtzwell), we all want to thin we're special, that our generation will somehow be the one to overcome oblivion. Let's face it--that's what terrifies us--not the act of dying. Not the missing of our loved ones. Not the knowing they will miss us. It's the oblivion that terrifies. The lack of consciousness. I see mountains and rivers and valleys.!i see the sun and solar systems and galaxies and the universe. It comforts me. And terrifies me. What the frick is all this? Non existence is a plausible ending? frick that. I don't accept it. But what choice do we have?

I had dinner the other day with a fellow Husky who is a lobbyist in Washington D.C. He represents the private space industry. There is so much going on in this arena, the majority of which you have heard nothing about. Plans to go to the moom, go to Mars, deep space. Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos get the press, but there are some other very bright, motivated people who are just built differently than the rest of us. We need to get out of the way and let them do what they do. It will be grand.