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[–] 14 points 7 months ago* (17 children)

It's mostly about testing the vessel used, for future actually useful missions.

There are some things they're doing, but it's scientifically not very much they couldn't do with probes.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    The moon could serve as the launch point for further exploration of the solar system. Off the top of my head, the big benefit of that would be asteroid mining.

    To me that's the biggest draw of developing our local spaceflight capabilities. Mining on earth is a gigantic environmental issue. If we could do that in space where the ores are already partially exposed, that would be awesome.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Off the top of my head, the big benefit of that would be asteroid mining.

    Science fiction is fun but get serious.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    There are companies already developing the tech to do this.

    ∙	AstroForge
    ∙	Karman+
    ∙	TransAstra
    ∙	Asteroid Mining Corporation (AMC)
    ∙	Origin Space​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
    
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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    If it's just to test the equipment why risk the lives of the astronauts?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Because future missions might also be manned. Better to risk small missions first to iron out the kinks than to have a big problem later that could have been noticed by you know, testing the vessel.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (6 children)

    Because they need to sell this porkbarrel to the public.

    Read the comments...we would rather send a few people to a dead rock than cure diseases.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    This is a shit take. It's not one or the other with spaceflight and curing diseases.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    It’s not one or the other with spaceflight and curing diseases

    It is in 2025 onwards. The country is $39T in debt, tens of billions got funneled to SpaceX on a failed Mars project, and in the same year, $35B gets cut from NIH.

    Lucky for Trump, you guys have you heads so far up your asses looking at rockets and shiny things, no one will notice.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    Science from space has been used plenty of times to help advance medicine though, along with plenty of other areas. And the thing about it is, you never know what you're going to discover until you actually discover it.

    NASA budget is 3% of the US military budget, maybe focus complaints where it's actually warranted.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    We already know how to build houses or grow food, yet we still have a housing crisis and famines around the world.

    What good will these potential cures bring? We already have cures for many many diseases, why are those diseases still existing?

    Any potential cures from this will ultimately be owned by the same corpos that own current cures/tech. And it will be sold back to the people for hundred of thousands of dollers in order to justify their huge "R&D" costs.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    What good will these potential cures bring? We already have cures for many many diseases, why are those diseases still existing?

    You should spread this message in hospitals. Lemmy, impossible to under estimate.

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