re: Take 40 minutes to watch Elon’s vision for making life interplanetary

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Elon Musk was a darling of the American left until he joined DOGE.

Thats the only reason you folks hate the guy.

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What's the point of making this observation when it's painfully obvious that the pendulum swings both ways?

I hate how they waste my tax dollars on this stuff

Ill never get to go to space, the government should buy me a 4 wheeler or give me some food stamps

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what would be Elons response to these criticisms?

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Well when Neil DeGrass Tyson mentioned these issues Musk said " They dont get it" " Mars is critical to the long-term survival of consciousness."

Which is a ridiculous response in so many ways....Musk later said "“the absurdly ambitious nature of the goal nonetheless results in the creation of alien-level technology that is crushingly better than competitors who merely aim for Earth orbit"

That makes a bit more sense and I think a short term visit, as with the moon shot, could be a good thing for humanity in both technology spin off and just as a unifying effort for humans.

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He won't, though, because he's a fake genius. Feel free to bookmark this post.

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What’s your net worth? Can you provide some sort of proof like a screenshot from accounts with today’s date?

Did you not see 2010.....Europa is where the action is.

Also, I hear Ganemede has promise for domed farming operations.....I saw it on The Expanse.

just the delivery vehicle to get a manned crew into mars orbit, and keep them alive during the year plus it will take to get there, will be the single most expensive piece of equipment in the history of earth. Surely there are better investments than that

At some point, humanity will cease to exist on earth. Just like the dinosaurs, there will be a world ending event that makes life unsustainable on our planet. This is a fact. It happens every so often without fail, the end.

Nobody on earth now knows when this will happen; it could be in 2 months, 2 thousand years, or 2 million years. But it'll happen, this is undeniable fact. Whether it's human made, a giant volcano blocking out the sun with its ash and earthquakes, or a giant asteroid collision, at some point humanity will meet its end here on this planet.

I have no idea why anyone would oppose someone trying to solve that problem, even as infinitely impossible as it seems to us in 2025. I agree that his timelines and goals are wishful thinking and next to impossible, but SOMEONE has to try. We can't keep kicking the can down the road, because these events will happen whether we're prepared or not.

SpaceX has made huge advancements in humanity's ability to space travel whether you like Elon or not. These advancements may end up being like the cavemen learning to use tools for the first time in comparison to our current technology, when the time comes for us to be a multi-planetary species. But someone had to do it, and it damn sure wasn't happening in the public sector.

I don't understand the hate for Elon and SpaceX, other than someone that's just consumed by politics and mass media telling them what to think. Even if his advancements are 1% of the goal that insures humanity's survival, nobody else was taking this on. We're too busy being divided by trivial bullshite that doesn't matter when there's a world ending event on the horizon.

I'm sorry he's taking away money that could be used for UBI to pay the laziest in society to sit and do nothing while the rest of us work, transgender story hour in the Philippines, Sesame Street in Saudi Arabia, and LGBTQ+ acceptance in sub-saharan Africa in order to advance humanity.

You consider yourself a sort of intellectual, yet you gobble up those liberal talking points and fads and don't realize you're being manipulated.

Show me a post of yours denouncing Musk and SpaceX before he was aligned with Trump. You can't.

Its not like SpaceX is some sort of ambiguous think tank or NGO promising results through research or "compassion and outreach" that never materialize. They are producing tangible results and advancements.

You're just butthurt because he's not all aboard the liberal agenda, and it's obvious. You can't hide from your posting history.

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NASA made it farther with a Casio calculator than Musk has made it with supercomputers running computational fluid dynamics...

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NASA also couldn’t get off the launch pad for years using recycled technology from the space shuttle program whilst spacex has figured out how to capture and reuse the rockets used to get to orbit reducing the cost immensely. But this isn’t about cost and savings, this is about him being on a side you disagree with. This isn’t about logic for people like you. This is your religion.

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Just going to ignore that a company received $535 billion

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It's just millions...

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Is there no discernible difference here in your view?

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