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[+] -56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (28 children)

a remote and uninhabited island located 400 miles from Honolulu

Mokumanamana sits at the boundary between "'pō,' the darkness, and 'au,' the light." When a Native Hawaiian dies, their soul travels up near Mokumanamana, and after meeting their ancestors there, they potentially get to advance into the great beyond with them in the dark waters west of the island.

okey-doke.

So, uninhabited (at this point means not viable for habitation) and it's a religious site that probably no one goes on a pilgrimage to? Fuckit.

edit: so the people using the downvote button as a disagree button:

What's the problem? If we are going to do this space shit we need places to drop the litter, what's wrong with this place? Is it just because it's Musk and Trump? I'm no fan of either but wouldn't it be better to have this SpaceX trash out in the Pacific instead of off the coast of South Texas where millions of US and Mexican citizens live?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Maybe the down votes are because not even 2 paragraphs from the one you quoted, they continue saying that they also have permission to drop debris all around the inhabitated islands.

    Along with allowing Musk to rain schrapnel down near Mokumanamana, the FAA also granted SpaceX the ability to do so around Hawaii's eight main islands — which are populated with American citizens who may end up having their houses or property hit by debris — and portions of the Papahānaumokuākea marine national monument, a UNESCO world heritage site that's home to thousands of diverse species of animal and plant life.

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  • [+] -23 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    bbbut the historical site! They are dropping it over the Gulf of Mexico right now so why shouldn't we move the debris field? Is there really a bigger problem doing it here or is it because Hawaiians are just pissed off they will be the recipients now?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    "let's just do some more colonialism! it will be fine"

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    You mean colonize Hawaii, a US state? How in the fuck do you even think this?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    the indigenous people have been heavily colonized. being a us state does not preclude you from some rich fuck showing up and ruining the ecosystem you maintain

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Are they Americans or not? I know that's a loaded question but we have to dump space trash somewhere if we are going to continue launching. We're not allowed to dump the trash in international waters AFAIK so we have to pick somewhere in our borders.

    Gulf of Mexico or The Pacific. Pick one.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    you already dismissed this in another thread, but seriously, we don't need spacex poluting our oceans and orbits like this. just because nasa isn't doing launches isn't reason to give a corporation carte blanche to do whatever in the name of "progress" while stymying real science. we could do, as a planet, with fewer launches than are being done and taking a longer view of science and research than quarterly profits.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    WTF. I want NASA back, I hate SpaceX. They suck. So what do we do?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    start getting critical. have conversations with our neighbors to shift what's possible. organize ourselves in the streets because the streets is where we win. refuse to accept that this is just the way things must be

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    cool story bro. I'm getting old and I'm very tired.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    same here all around. but if my octogenerian neighbors can take the time to demand that my great grand children i'll never meet have a planet worth living on, then i can do the same for the next generations, too. it doesn't have to be an all consuming fight, it's a marathon not a sprint, afterall. but that marathon starts with setting a goal, and one of those goals should be a planet where a long term view of resource management is taken. just accepting "it has to be somewhere" ignores the truth that it doesn't need to be at all. that people's ancestral lands matter. that clean oceans and ecosystems matter. destroying something in the name of progress isn't progress.

    it doesn't have to be much. it starts with saying your local community should be cleaner, and that it shouldn't just dump its waste in another community. we all live together, ultimately.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Which community though? Are we not all Americans?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    we both are. but you have to think global and act local. our power is in our ability to convince the people around us that there's something wrong with the way things are and something to be done about it. so it starts with county politics, state politics, national politics, and then global. movements take years and they always start with shifting what's possible

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Uninhabited islands are not uninhabitable and the only value of a place is not whether people can live on it. The northwestern Hawaiian islands are a marine sanctuary valued even though barely anyone goes there. This argument is like saying the deep Everglades are unexploited, so we might as well dump our trash there.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What the fuck? They are literally dumping this shit in the Gulf of Mexico RIGHT NOW.

    Why is this shitty little island out in the middle of nowhere a problem?!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You are steadfastly dedicated to not getting the point while simultaneously whining about downvotes. Have an angry day where you think everyone else is the problem.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah, that's what I'm worried about.

    WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH THIS SHITTY LITTLE ISLAND?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Okay, so let’s put it this way. If the federal govt decided that people could take dumps in Your grandparents garage without asking, you would protest right? And if they said “well, your grandparents don’t live in The house so it shouldn’t be a problem”- it’d be a problem right? And then someone posts the article on here and someone types out a defense “yeah but it’s a garage, its uninhabitable” and then later “WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH THIS SHITTY LITTLE ISLAND?” …. You’re getting this right?

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Cool. Who's garage do we shit in then?

    Because if we're going to shit in a garage we need a garage to shit in. So is that garage in South Texas or out in The Pacific?

    basically, no one has stated why this place is not a good place but the Gulf of Mexico is what we're using now so... just keep using it?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The Gulf of Mexico is also a bad place, but unfortunately it wasn't a marine monument and the residents there didn't fight to protect it. We in Hawaii care about this island because it's our responsibility and all of our islands are interconnected. You don't seem to know shit about the area or that scientists don't view SpaceX's reckless R&D as an unabashed good and then go up on your soapbox to act like you in your ignorance are the only rational mind.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    For what it's worth, I agree with you 100%. I'd love to see Musk fail in every one of his business endeavors, but if we're going to drop space garbage over the planet, an uninhabited island seems like a great place to do it. The fact that a small group of people has superstitious ideas about that small patch of land should be irrelevant.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    this attitude is the problem with religion though. it's not that the religion isn't guided by science, but the idea that one groups needs supercede another group's. the hawaiians are the native keepers of this ecosystem. for thousands of years they have been there maintaining it. now because another group wants it for something else we're just supposed to ignore them? fuck that. this is the same attitude that gave us the crusades, the rape of africa, the potato famine, and boarding schools for indigenous people in north america. it doesn't matter that those acts were done by people who claimed to have god on their side and you claim there is no god.

    what matters is those acts were done by people claiming to be more advanced than the backwards people they were doing it to, which is exactly what you are advocating for here

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, lemmy seems to love religion as long as it's not white or Catholic.

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