Watched the livestream of the SpaceX landing today and all I saw was workers--hundreds an hundreds them, pulling off an incredibly difficult thing by working together.

Watched the news coverage and all I saw was a dipshit failson of some apartheid emerald miner--and a bunch of tech bros making the soy face in the comments.

Shit sucks.

  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Couldn't agree more, I've always had a massive interest in space advocacy but I can't think of anything worse than polluting space with Capitalism.

    • Emerus [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah space travel is cool as shit, but under capitalism it's just going to be yet another toy for the rich and a way to make the money number go up.

      • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, can't wait for the only connection the average person has to the final frontier be Jake Paul livestreams or some horseshit

      • Sushi_Desires
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        4 years ago

        There's actually an anime called Planetes where space has been privatized, and the less wealthy countries are basically [economically] barred from participating. It leads to certain activist sects trying to level the scales by doing space terrorism because it is the only recourse they are left with