Sure, lets jump straight to MILITARY and not… oh say, I dunno… space exploration? Typical military industrial complex bullshit.
Sick of this fucking timeline.
Dude, you realize the whole ‘going to the moon’ thing was just a way to convince the public to fund ballistic missile technology? And the whole reason for the shuttle was to steal Russias satellites? One of the biggest use cases for space is war. Space travel won’t feed anyone.
We can already feed everyone. We just choose not to. Space travel has nothing to do with it, but we should do it anyway.
I’m for space travel but I think the commercialization of space will benefit a very few.
Not if we have gay space-communism and anyone and their mother can use the skytrain (my colloquial name for a space elevator).
Ballistic missile tech already existed.
It was modified for use in the Mercury program.
Dude, you realize the whole ‘going to the moon’ thing was just a way to convince the public to fund ballistic missile technology?
And this was true for both sides of the 1960s Space Race.
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Sputnik 1 was carried into space by the Soviet Sputnik rocket (an adaptation of the R-7 Semyorka Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) on October 4, 1957 source
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Yuri Gagarin was carried into space on April 12, 1961, by a Vostok 8K72K rocket. The Vostok 8K72K was a three-stage liquid-fueled launch vehicle derived directly from the Soviet Union’s R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) source
There was fierce competition inside the USSR for which rocket technology would be best used for weapons. The whole “exploration” or “civilian use” thing on both sides (USA/USSR) was just window dressing for weapons programs in space.
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Ok this is it. Last straw for me. Imma go do something now.
Technology has failed us. Time to build some emps, time to stop paying taxes.
Hasn’t this clearly been the plan for years, surprised this is a a surprise to anyone. When musk was talking about delivering payloads anywhere in the world in under an hour, he’s wasn’t talking about getting you toilet paper quicker (or solving world hunger)
zzz…zzz…
In the context of spy satellites, (nuclear) weapons and drone bases in orbit, I honestly can’t wait for the Kessler effect to materialize. Russia has demonstrated it could destroy a defunct Soviet satellite in orbit using a missile, and with tensions rising, alongside the number of objects placed in orbit, it doesn’t seem like a matter of if, but rather a matter of when it unfolds.
Just as soon as Ketamine Man gets his rockets to stop blowing up or looking like crispy critters when they ditch in the ocean.
