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re: Musk right on point as usual...
Posted on 4/24/25 at 8:54 am to TigerGman
Posted on 4/24/25 at 8:54 am to TigerGman
So we are just going to ignore the fact that Elon doesn't know how to subtract?
76 years ago was 1949. We landed on the moon 56 years ago in 1969.
At least he got the 1969-1903 for 66 years correct. 1 out of 2, not bad if you're in 2nd grade.
76 years ago was 1949. We landed on the moon 56 years ago in 1969.
At least he got the 1969-1903 for 66 years correct. 1 out of 2, not bad if you're in 2nd grade.
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Posted on 4/24/25 at 8:56 am to da foozball
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That shite was so staged.
Both.
We went to the moon and much of the footage was Hollywood produced to embellish the NASA program...marketing purposes.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:00 am to HeadSlash
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Mars is too cold
Not the kind of place to raise your kids either.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:09 am to LSUballs
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:09 am to cgrand
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from reading this thread and some of the comments on that twitter post, i'd say those billions would be better spent on education
Reading the comments on that Twitter post is depressing.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:12 am to TigerGman
While he's right on the TECHNICAL aspect of things, Musk's tweet doesn't take MOTIVATION into consideration.
During the 1960's we were in the height of the Cold war with the Russians which spawned the Space race. That pretty much fell apart during the Regan presidency.
Had the US had the desire to put the full effort of it's technological and manufacturing powers behind a Mars mission like it did for Apollo, it would have already happened.
Oh and MARS #!+&^3$...
During the 1960's we were in the height of the Cold war with the Russians which spawned the Space race. That pretty much fell apart during the Regan presidency.
Had the US had the desire to put the full effort of it's technological and manufacturing powers behind a Mars mission like it did for Apollo, it would have already happened.
Oh and MARS #!+&^3$...
This post was edited on 4/24/25 at 9:21 am
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:25 am to ATrillionaire
quote:every single time there’s a space or space exploration thread here or honestly anything to do with scientific research, it’s depressing
Reading the comments on that Twitter post is depressing.
I’m aware that some of the comments are made in jest but goddamn there are some dangerously stupid people among us
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:27 am to Lonnie Utah
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Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:12 am to TigerGman
While he's right on the TECHNICAL aspect of things, Musk's tweet doesn't take MOTIVATION into consideration.
During the 1960's we were in the height of the Cold war with the Russians which spawned the Space race. That pretty much fell apart during the Regan presidency.
Had the US had the desire to put the full effort of it's technological and manufacturing powers behind a Mars mission like it did for Apollo, it would have already happened.
Ugh, we were eventually going to the Moon anyway. It just turned into a race.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:35 am to cgrand
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I’m aware that some of the comments are made in jest but goddamn there are some dangerously stupid people among us
Prepare thine anus for the wrath of Ephesians aka Liberator.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:35 am to TigerGman
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Ugh, we were eventually going to the Moon anyway. It just turned into a race.
Right, but you miss the point.
Two things got us to the moon in July of 1969. The space race with the Russians and Kennedy's assassination, on the heels of his speech at Rice University charging us to go to the moon before the end of the 1960's. Had Kennedy not been killed, I firmly believe we would have not had the motivation to reach the mood as quickly as we did.
We have not had an event that brought the country together, like Kennedy's death, that has united us behind a Mars mission.
This post was edited on 4/24/25 at 9:37 am
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:41 am to ATrillionaire
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The technology created along the way while trying to get there.
If we are going to add a half of a trillion dollars to the deficit for a single project, I would want a lot more benefit than the nebulous “technology created along the way”
Let private industry fund the mission if the technology created will be so valuable.
We could spend that much money funding independent medical research free of Pharma’s hooks and likely develop cures for the majority of cancers.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:42 am to TigerGman
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Only 66 years from first flight to landing on the Moon in 1969.
And we did it all with slide rules and duct tape.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:45 am to TigerGman
The moon is 238,000 miles from Earth. Mars is 140 million miles from earth. This is a pretty stupid comment, TBH. It's also not clear that humans could survive Mars' atmosphere even with a spacesuit.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:47 am to TigerGman
I must be missing something with that math in OP. Help a brother out.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:49 am to NOFOX
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If we are going to add a half of a trillion dollars to the deficit for a single project, I would want a lot more benefit than the nebulous “technology created along the way”
Like I said to another poster, please Google the innovation that came out of Apollo mission. That tech was far from nebulous.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:51 am to LSUballs
That 5 days a week thing always gets me.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:53 am to 6R12
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I must be missing something with that math in OP. Help a brother out.
Apollo 11 will be 56 years ago this July, not 76. I'm going to assume Musk fat fingered the 7 instead of the 5...
This post was edited on 4/24/25 at 9:54 am
Posted on 4/24/25 at 9:57 am to Snipe
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Shows you what a lazy society we have become. Not only are most lazy in action and do not aim for greatness, they are lazy in mind and spirit and deny the greatness that was achieved by those that came before them.
Or check the math. 1969 to 2025 is 56 years.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 10:16 am to ATrillionaire
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Like I said to another poster, please Google the innovation that came out of Apollo mission. That tech was far from nebulous.
It isn’t even close to $500B worth to society. ??????
The premise also assumes that the tech NASA claims credit for from Apollo would not have been created if not for NASA’s mission.
NASA claims credit from Apollo for:
(1) freeze dried foods
(2) cooling suits
(3) a different form of dialysis
(4) metal bonded polyurethane
(5) Teflon coated fibers
(6) digital fly by wire control
(7) Mylar blankets
Posted on 4/24/25 at 10:19 am to TT9
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Voted Jorgensen
He ran in 2020, did you pull the lever for Chase Oliver in 2024?
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