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Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition." (futurism.com)
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[+] -18 points 1 week ago (13 children)

LOL

Why bring Space Nuttery into this?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Nuttery?

    Every dollar spent at NASA has returned so much more. They develop things for space travel that have uses far beyond space. We wouldn't even have satellites and GPS if we didn't venture into space.

    Space has a lot for us to explore and a ton of resources we can use. Why strip mine the Earth when we could just take it from the asteroid belt?

    You really need to disconnect space exploration from the likes of Musk or Bezos. We've been advancing humanity through space exploration before those two assholes were born

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  • [+] -11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    NASA has nothing to do with nuclear research. The world would benefit from nuclear research more than sending another group for a lap around the moon.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    Nuclear power is a very important technology for space vehicles, probes and bases. There's proven potential for greatly improved propulsion systems as well.

    You can't just hear the word space and declare it "nuttery", that's just ignoring whole industries and areas of active research and engineering.

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  • [+] -17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Your response is exactly Space Nuttery. Dream-like nerd fantasies.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    Calling yourself a nerd while you limit yours and others' inquisitiveness, passion, and imagination. Pretty pathetic to be honest.

    Oh and the best argument is not responding. Which I know, ironic. But let's see you ignore this and not give some trite, trolling response. Chances of that are pretty low.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Let's move to Mars! Let's mine the Moon or an asteroid! Let's give Musk another $100 billion!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    We were doing worthwhile exploration well before Musk was born. It has and can be done in a way that doesn't need to be tied to him.

    Also wouldn't mining a moon or asteroid belt be preferable to mining the Earth? Like we can keep our water and environment cleaner and still get the resources we need

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  • [+] -18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Space Nuttery is thinking it's somehow important or relevant for humanity going forward.

    A power source for a floating camera to go take pictures of dead rocks and frozen chemicals is a niche interest. No one has a RTG powered city.

    "You can’t just hear the word space and declare it “nuttery”,"

    You can't just hear "Space Nuttery" and talk about space. Space is a mostly empty sucking vacuum hostile to all life and a radiation-blasted hell.

    Space Nuttery is living in a fantasy world where we'll just somehow go space mining and colonizing Mars with water from Saturn's rings like it's just a question of a longer trip to Home Depot.

    It's an intellectual dead end.

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