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angrychair

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19. Not like it used to be

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #11)

Tue Oct 21, 2025, 10:14 PM

Oct 2025

It doesn't work the same way as it did in the past. We are currently just shoveling money into the bottomless pit that is SpaceX. I'm tired of giving our tax dollars to prop up petty, cruel billionaires that are, objectively, trying to destroy the country.

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NASA opens SpaceX's moon lander contract to rivals over Starship delays [View all] BumRushDaShow Oct 2025 OP

just another chapter in the orange asshole vs empty husk grudge match. nt Javaman Oct 2025 #1

even a blind squirrel finds the occasional nut Eugene Oct 2025 #5

Imagine how much progress we could make on Earth by redirecting these billions here. Lonestarblue Oct 2025 #2

Unfortunately we have too many dreamers. The Grand Illuminist Oct 2025 #4

The SpaceX lunar plans are too complicated LastDemocratInSC Oct 2025 #3

More than fifty years ago sending people to the moon was a grand adventure... hunter Oct 2025 #6

I think it is supposed to be a reintroduction to off-world exploration BumRushDaShow Oct 2025 #7

Why would any rational human want to go to Mars? hunter Oct 2025 #8

You must not be a Trekkie like me! BumRushDaShow Oct 2025 #9

I've been a Star Trek fan since the first episode aired and a Science Fiction fan longer than that. hunter Oct 2025 #12

Well then you would know the "reason" BumRushDaShow Oct 2025 #15

Baby smiles. hunter Oct 2025 #16

That was the ongoing debate within Trek BumRushDaShow Oct 2025 #18

Species survival RoseTrellis Oct 2025 #13

If we survive for any great time as a species (most species don't) it won't be because we built rockets. hunter Oct 2025 #17

Here is a novel idea angrychair Oct 2025 #10

NASA still contracted that out BumRushDaShow Oct 2025 #11

Not like it used to be angrychair Oct 2025 #19

What's different BumRushDaShow Oct 2025 #20

I get that angrychair Oct 2025 #21

We have a lack of effective oversight BumRushDaShow Oct 2025 #22

Absolutely agree angrychair Oct 2025 #23

Musk's Starship Lander has never looked like a good idea. LudwigPastorius Oct 2025 #14

Nothing that asshole does angrychair Oct 2025 #24