It's hard to define what "Hexbear" is anymore, with so many of the posts coming from random Lemmy instances. Our brand and subculture are diluted and it shows. A lot more confrontation and friction in threads. So it got me thinking. How can we recapture the authentic sense of what Hexbear is and do something nice for the world as a community?
If you've been watching India's moon mission, you know how happy everyone looks in the footage. They're so proud of their work and the whole nation is congratulating them. Actually the whole world. It's a massive publicity boost and unites an otherwise polarised nation. Well what's stopping us from doing that? Think of all the cool things we could accomplish with a space programme. Designing new rockets, exploring new galaxies, maybe colonising a planet or two as a forum. We would let everyone know what Hexbear represents and could mine asteroids for orbital factories that supply our fleet of ships. One thing we might build is a Dyson Sphere, or maybe even a generation ship to raise the next ten generations of our families together on our way to another solar system. I'm a plant scientist and could probably even grow lettuce in microgravity.
We can do this. I just ask that you trust me and send me the money to do so.
Yes. And if anyone wants to open a credit card account and give me the number and not look at the statement, we can achieve this together.
I regret to inform you that I have just cached this image in my browser and its value has therefore diminished.
That rare Foghorn will sell for at least $50k. We're that much closer to space.
This post made me realize building a space program is the nation level "solution" equivalent of "if we just have a kid it will save our marriage"
So is this going to be a kerbal thing or a modded minecraft thing?
Hmm. I do hate living on this planet. Let me go flip over my couch and see if any change falls out.
Getting outside the ionosphere sounds great and all but I kinda need gravity for my bowls to work.
As Hexbear's resident rocket nerd/engineer I am prepared to take up the mantle on this worthy endeavor.
If you can design the spaceships, I'm good at X4 and know where to put them. The asteroid belt.
yeah man i flew a cardboard rocket to like 1700ft i got u
That's pretty high. With our collective experience I think we could get a lot higher.
yeah sure. totally. just send me like a few tens of those millions and ill see what i can do k thx
It wouldn't be ethical for me to take your money and then give you funds from the Starfleet budget. Instead we'll let you pilot a mining ship and you can harvest all the precious metals you want from asteroids. One asteroid and you're paid back with trillions of dollars of interest.
And how do you plan to get that mining ship up there?? Ive got u and Hexfleet by the throat now if i dont see the money flowing in by tomorrow morning you will have NOTHING
I thought that would be common sense. Design a rocket that lowers the cost per kilo into orbit to $10. Then build self-assembling orbital factories to design a basic asteroid harvesting platform. Use the revenue and resources from that to build a mining fleet. Snowball that into full orbital shipyards that can produce thousands of mining ships per day. Then everyone gets paid back.
you need my hexpertise to accomplish step number 1. no rocket, no factories, no hexfleet. all you have to do is send me 1 billion usd
I know how to do step 1. Make it cheaper. It's the mining fleet I need help with. I can draw the shapes but need someone to translate those into engineering schematics.
You should write a get rich quick self-help book sometime. Actually, that could help with funding this endeavor.
If I can convert them to cash, I will accept any kind of video game money. I'll even sell your MMORPG accounts.
Now that the dirty owl is a capitalist can we make them put up the money first?
I think we should all put up money. If all 24700 of us send me just $40485.83, I will have one billion dollars for this. I've already contributed $15.
I would happily send some billionaires on the Hexbear rocket to space
I have an engineering degree
that has nothing to do with aerospaceand I would be willing to provide my talents for the low low price of 1 million dollarsWould you really choose $1m today over trillions of dollars once your ship successfully snares even one asteroid?
[shoots off a bottle rocket] There's your hexbear moon mission, pal.
I'm so good at shooting those without them burning my hand. A rocket is the same principles with a different fuel.
moon mission
we talking real ones or just another deep space fake?
The real thing. You could be sitting on the moon sipping lunar water by this time next year if you just send me $2m over Venmo.
My pappy† always used to say, “you can’t have a nation without culture, language, and borders”. I think this sort of project could really bring us together by keeping our attention on our ideals for the future. We could call it futurism!
†My pappy was a fascist if that matters
We could go from a simple shitposting forum to the vanguard of humanity. The new cultural blueprint for our species as a multiplanetary civilisation.
