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[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's mostly about testing the vessel used, for future actually useful missions.

There are some things they're doing, but it's scientifically not very much they couldn't do with probes.

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

The moon could serve as the launch point for further exploration of the solar system. Off the top of my head, the big benefit of that would be asteroid mining.

To me that's the biggest draw of developing our local spaceflight capabilities. Mining on earth is a gigantic environmental issue. If we could do that in space where the ores are already partially exposed, that would be awesome.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Off the top of my head, the big benefit of that would be asteroid mining.

Science fiction is fun but get serious.

[-] chinaski@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

There are companies already developing the tech to do this.

∙	AstroForge
∙	Karman+
∙	TransAstra
∙	Asteroid Mining Corporation (AMC)
∙	Origin Space​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Lol, let's fuck moon like we fucked earth. (Not a criticism on you btw)

[-] chinaski@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

We will absolutely wreck whatever we impose ourselves on!

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

LOL. oh, companies looking for investors, much be true then.

How many electric car companies from a decade ago still exist?

[-] Ninjasftw@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah you're right we should never try to do anything because some might fail. How many cancer treatments fail, I guess we should stop trying those too

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

If it's just to test the equipment why risk the lives of the astronauts?

[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Because future missions might also be manned. Better to risk small missions first to iron out the kinks than to have a big problem later that could have been noticed by you know, testing the vessel.

[-] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

So that the Astronauts can actually test the equipment?

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Because they need to sell this porkbarrel to the public.

Read the comments...we would rather send a few people to a dead rock than cure diseases.

[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Science from space has been used plenty of times to help advance medicine though, along with plenty of other areas. And the thing about it is, you never know what you're going to discover until you actually discover it.

NASA budget is 3% of the US military budget, maybe focus complaints where it's actually warranted.

We already know how to build houses or grow food, yet we still have a housing crisis and famines around the world.

What good will these potential cures bring? We already have cures for many many diseases, why are those diseases still existing?

Any potential cures from this will ultimately be owned by the same corpos that own current cures/tech. And it will be sold back to the people for hundred of thousands of dollers in order to justify their huge "R&D" costs.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

What good will these potential cures bring? We already have cures for many many diseases, why are those diseases still existing?

You should spread this message in hospitals. Lemmy, impossible to under estimate.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

NASA budget is 3% of the US military budget, maybe focus complaints where it’s actually warranted.

All diseases research is 0% of the US military budget.

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

This is a shit take. It's not one or the other with spaceflight and curing diseases.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

It’s not one or the other with spaceflight and curing diseases

It is in 2025 onwards. The country is $39T in debt, tens of billions got funneled to SpaceX on a failed Mars project, and in the same year, $35B gets cut from NIH.

Lucky for Trump, you guys have you heads so far up your asses looking at rockets and shiny things, no one will notice.

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