The (new) Space Thread 🌌📡🔭🗿🛸🤖

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Originally Posted by atomicpaul [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Reality is under no obligation to be marketable, and I very much doubt they'd keep sending rovers to Mars if there was nothing to be learned

There is litreally nothing to be learned from a mars rovers photographs on mars, zero.

The only science was in "getting it there" - for the purpouse of what? So in 35 years when we send the next one after technology has drastically changed we can say we forgot how we landed on the moon?

Its all so fucking tiresome.

"so its sandy over here, and wow, its sandy over there"

Meanwhile: "what about that rock that looks like a big face, id love to see that, would watch it on prime time tV!"

"NO"........ "w-w-w-hat do you mean you're c-c-c-cuting funding??!!"

I don't like the profit motive being near scientific advancement either, but it's the system we operate under. I don't like capitalism but if it must exist I do think private companies and individuals going into space is good for progress altogether. Even if it's a grifter like Elon, he won't live forever and space will be there waitin

Yes, but even him for some reason does not want to make billions filming monoliths on the moons of mars.

BECAUUUSEEEE...

the alien conspiracy is real.