Every time there’s a big writer’s strike or whatnot it becomes starkly clear how many self-proclaimed leftists think that only people who perform manual labour which results in a physical product that you can hold in your hands count as workers and everybody else is a parasite of some description.
don’t forget during the WGA strike that animation is not covered under the WGA deals and as a result animation has gotten the shortest possible end of the stick in under-staffing, under-paying, and generally turning the field into gig employment.
please sign the petition here for Disney to recognize animation production workers as a union and reblog this post!
this is maybe the funniest thing to happen, ever. thank you spacex for once again pushing the boundaries of trashy scifi
Can we not, this time? Musk had nothing to do with the design or construction of that rocket. He’s just slapping his name on it.
You’re mocking the hard efforts of teams of engineers trying to do what is still the hardest activity humanity engages in.
Space flight is not and probably will never be easy. A failure is not a spectacle, it’s an opportunity to learn and make the next design better.
Look, maybe I’m the asshole here. But like….
We’ve successfully been getting rockets into orbit for like 60 years.
What *exactly* did this teach us that we didn’t already know?
Yeah, fuck ups happen. Especially with something as complex as a rocket launch. But really- what was learned here? How was this a success? Because this feels a lot like stroking Musks ego because his attempt to privatize the colonization of space is a bumbling, explodey waste of time that keeps raining debris across my state.
It’s not like any other rocket we’ve ever built. The bigger ones we currently have are made to fit only a few people to shuttle them up to the iss. What SpaceX engineers are trying to do is send enough people and equipment to colonise. This has to be a huge rocket. And if you look at the history of rockets, every size increase also requires some sort of innovative launch system. ALSO it has to get to MARS with the payload.
So it’s going to take a few misfires, to say the least. The only thing I don’t get is why they hyped this doomed rocket so much.
It wouldn’t have been such a misfire if they had followed basic, well established, obvious safety measures. But those safety measures cost *money*I suppose. It didn’t have to be doomed. Privatized space flight is just a fucking scam.
Yeah, I agree with that. But let’s be honest, who else can work towards Mars?
NASAs entire Artemis project right now has a long term goal of getting humans to Mars.
But more importantly- mankind does not have an obligation to get to Mars, and we should not excuse flagrant safety risks and environmental harm because some rich asshole has dreams of starting an indentured servitude colony there.
Could you link your source on the artemis project? The only thing I can find is that it’s trying to get men and women of color on the moon.
And definitely we should be trying to save the planet we are on. But with the system in place, no work will be made on that until it becomes profitable to do so, in which it will be too late.
And privatizing spaceflight is also not an option, because then the same thing will happen to Mars. Really, the system needs to be overhauled and reinvigorated before any meaningful progress can be made towards either option.
You’re also kidding yourself if you think we don’t HAVE to go to Mars. Human nature is to expand, to grow. I kinda think that’s part of the reason why we have issues, though it isn’t apparent: we’ve gone stagnant. We need to change, to shake things up to grow and be better.
Did you try the opening paragraph on the Nasa website?
Then, we will use what we learn on and around the Moon to take the next giant leap: sending the first astronauts to Mars.
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Also, like, I’m really gonna need you to sit back and think about the sentiment “it’s human nature to colonize new places, regardless of the human and environmental cost, and even if the people doing the colonizing have explicitly said they want to do so in wildly unethical ways. We HAVE to do this.”
We don’t. We actually don’t. And the idea that we have stagnated as a species because…what, we aren’t actively colonizing new places at this moment? What, you think we have a manifest destiny to populate the asteroid belt?
Space research is incredibly inspiring, and when done for the public good, does a lot of public good.
But this idea that humans have an entitlement and obligation to populate new places, no matter the harm it will cause, is the same mindset that informs the capitalist and consumerist systems that you’re admitting are making it incredibly difficult to fight climate change here.
“Mass consumption of new land and resources makes us better actually” is gonna be [citation needed] for me.
I’m saying, if we don’t go into space, if we don’t expand, humanity will die. Because all living things need to grow, or die. Look at the life cycle: birth, growth, reproduction to lead to more growth, and death. If we don’t go to space, how do we grow? How do we not die?
And say that you think we should just not grow. What, then, is our purpose? Why do we, as a human race, exist if we aren’t growing? Maybe, entitlement is the wrong term, because there’s nobody allowing or forbidding us from nor growing, besides ourselves.
What you’re putting in that is you say the only way to grow is without regard for the consequences. Which I believe is false. And in order to do it correctly, we need to overhaul capitalism. That is the next step in out growth.
There is absolutely no reason to think that humanity needs to colonize space to survive. At least not for about…oh, 5 billion years or so.
This mindset is built wholly on manifest destiny, colonialist justifications and excuses.
And we should absolutely not be giving ultra rich assholes a blank check to kill people and wreck the environment because they want to run a little indentured servitude colony on a planet with no labor laws.
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