I've a huge niggle about space tech. I'd argue massive government funding of spaceflight is actually holding us back. If we were serious about reaching the stars as a race we should be focussing our effort on hobby and commercial groups trying to do it as cheaply as possible rather than ten billion dollar vehicles only a few people will ever use.

@Eiregoat @Engineer @Tfmonkey @shortstories Only problem with that agenda is the human cost being very high.

I don't see that as a problem. No matter how risky a new vehicle is, there'll always be someone not only willing to volunteer, but willing to pay huge money to ride in it.

See the titanic submarine.

@Eiregoat @Engineer @Tfmonkey @shortstories Or, the more recent submersible that vanished in the creator's mental retardation.

@Eiregoat @Engineer @Tfmonkey

We should not spend any government money on research for anything, that is how you create "science" cults with fake data to keep getting new funding where the IRS holds people at gunpoint instead of real science

We should focus on how to do science and invent things to help humans on earth

If we can not solve basic problems on earth then we should not infect outer space with stupidity

@shortstories @Tfmonkey @Engineer Weirmart cant even rebuild bridges or maintain planes anymore. I would not be surprised if nuclear powerplants start going obsolete, because there is no one to maintain them and its too dangerous to keep around, with DIE niggers running things.

@Marakus @Engineer @Tfmonkey

It is more dangerous not to maintain nuclear power plants because then you still have to guard nuclear waste but now it is stored in a less safe manner

Building nuclear power plants is the safest thing to do with unused nuclear material that must be guarded for environmental reasons and to prevent terrorism

@Marakus @shortstories @Tfmonkey @Engineer There's an important distinction between "unable to" vs "unwilling to" maintain infrastructure. We still have competent people, but the govt regularly chooses to hire incompetent groids instead.

The logical end result of this is a recession of infrastructure to locations predominantly occupied by competent people. We're still going to have nuclear plants in, say, Montana and North Dakota for a while before they're overrun. At that point, said people are going to go overseas for employment, but that doesn't mean they won't return if the US ends up course correcting.

Just like with SF and Xi, the US govt could choose to reverse decisions overnight, but they make a conscious decision to collapse the system. womp womp