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I find it disgusting that otherwise intelligent people get excited about the current idiocy of the billionaire space race. Jackass Musk's most recent plan is to actually destroy a space vehicle by crashing it into a rock, funded by NASA, and somehow this is 'science'.
I love science fiction, and the space sub-genre. I get it. But we are not kids, and how can anyone possibly think it is a good idea to destroy what's left of our planet launching garbage into space while releasing incredible amounts of greenhouse gases and toxic substances. It's bad enough this asshole is destroying poorer nations by mining for lithium and really toxic metals to supply 'green' cars to idiots. But he is also destroying the air we breathe, and really, everything else.
Russian space program had a serious cost: a good chunk of the Kazakh steppes are heavily polluted with the fallout from liquid fuel rocket engines. Although it is said that western technology is much safer, bullshit: there are recorded incidents of American astronauts poisoned with rocket fuel fumes.
Why exactly are we doing this? No one can be stupid enough to think we are really colonizing Mars, right? I mean you have to be a *total idiot* to think that somehow going to a frozen rock with no breathable atmosphere is easier than say, setting up an underwater city, or building a whole country around the South pole. Not like there is a shortage of room on Earth. Really, you are a fucking moron if you think that you are going to live off earth.
What kind of 'industrial' benefit can you possibly get from a place that is really impossibly expensive in every way to get to or from? Fucking idiots.
As for scientific benefit... Well, we've been doing this for more than 50 years. Aside from occasionally launching a space telescope THAT WORKS (idiots!), why? How many times do you need to prove that Einstein's equations match up? It's been like 100 years. Maybe there is something to measure, but really, how much is this masturbation worth?
If you want to puke, watch some weekly NASA videos (NASA's been reduced to making commercials for itself and paying billionaires to do the dirty work). Woo-hoo kids, don't you want to become an asronaut when you grow up?
The real reason this is happening is because these fuckers can get incredible amounts of our money handed to them by the likes of NASA.
oWe should instead spend that money on something actually useful. Or not spend it at all. And also not pollute in the process.