This big fucker is supposed to launch in March. Nobody seems to give a fuck about space exploration anymore. I was fascinated by this shit when I was a kid. I got used to seeing shuttle launches regularly on the NASA channel.
I think last years budget for NASA was 1.7 billion. Are we wasting resources? Isn't that pretty small though compared to the rest of government spending? Is any other government spending under as much scrutiny as NASA? How much has that F-35 cost and the F-22s that they are afraid to break?
I know this is the Falcon Heavy and not technically NASA.
If you think exploration is a waste your fucked. Soon there won't be anywhere else to go but up. Resources are nearly endless, there is so much we could discover, so much we could do, space exploration is the future.
Dominic Bailey
Almost all Scientific and technological break throughs have come due to space research.
Jack Lewis
It may or may not be a waste of resources.
idgaf
If it were my decision NASA would get much more funding
Gavin Martin
These. Space is a lie. It's perpetuated to obscure the true nature of our world and make us feel small and unimportant. We are living in a realm under an energetic dome. We are not an accident. The big bang is bullshit. Flat Earth is a psyop but it's closer to the truth than a ball covered in water spinning in space.
Chase Evans
Australia is a fake country
Michael Thomas
Never gonna work, the other galaxies are way too far away. Unless the aliens share their technology (they won't), your other option is Astral Projection
Jason James
>Nobody seems to give a fuck about space exploration anymore. I think there were too many bubbles in their clips and people went drunk. The scuba tank probably played a part in that.
Jose Morris
Why would Canada decide NASAs budget? Does Canada have a space program? No seriously I know it's too high to launch for regular orbits up there, but what are you leafs doing in the space department?
Grayson Richardson
Space travel has allowed for things like GPS and dish networks allowing one to see broadcast channels from other countries instantaneously.
No, humanity must continue to proceed.
Ian Rodriguez
So it's made people too stupid to learn to use a map and helped Americans get fat by watching tv?
Camden Morales
>Nasa gets 0.0001% of national funding >Successfull manned spacestation for decades >Still working on getting to Mars within 2 decades
>Welfare gets 30% of national funding >Poverty increasing
JUST
Owen Watson
This. Certain metals are hard to find here, and rare to use. Despite their importance to research and development, yet the solar system has it all. Enough to make a YUGE profit and business out of. The fact that only a few companies have actually taken interest in this is sad. But I guess we're going to have to wait until SpaceX and other space launch businesses have mastered it. Takes time OP. Progress takes time.
Wyatt Martin
A ton of shit we enjoy and the western world takes for granted today was invented to fill a necessity in the space program, or is only possible because of those invention. Microwave ovens, freeze-dried fruit in your oatmeal, super comfy mattresses, satellite TV, the fucking Internet, solar panels, GPS, countless advances in metallurgy, electronics, and heat transfer systems were made for the sake of the space program. A space race has nearly the same technological advancement boost as a war between Western nations, but with fewer dead white males.
Ryder Campbell
High altitude balloons, zeppelins, underwater cables and a network of antenna on the ground has made all these things possible. GPS works solely with triangulation and doesn't require satellites at all.
Tyler Rivera
We do have a space agency. It mostly deals in satellite launches, probes, and helping NASA and ESA missions because even throughout the galaxy my nation's cuckoldry must be known.
Jackson Powell
I'm all for space exploration, just not with NASA. It's nothing more than a money sucking bureaucracy.
Get rid of it and start anew.
Nolan Price
Yeah I think the media have a big part in not making this kinda stuff more apparent, if you're not actively interested in space-missions etc then it may as well not exist until the day before the launch and the media jump on it and then it's forggotten.
i'm kinda lokking forward to the Orion Mars mission/s 2bh that'll be pretty cool and the next big step in space exploration
tl;dr USA RUS USA RUS USA
Zachary Myers
>No, humanity must continue to proceed
It's been 50 years since we sent men to the moon, and the only notable feat besides that was to send a rover on Mars.
Space exploration is on hold until we get our hands on a technology that isn't human. You have no idea how far the other galaxies are
Blake Taylor
Is Starlite real or a hoax?
Asher Brown
There's nothing out there. Huge waste of resources
James Sanchez
Why do we need to go to other galaxies first? There's what over a billion stars here?
Wyatt Fisher
i heard for every 1 dollar we gib them we get 10 dollars worth of technology in return or some shit
not sure if true
bur i do agree op it seems like a foolish investment to simply find out if ayy's exist, plus if we do, it might have unintended consequences
pic related
Camden Jones
In Canada?
Asher Turner
Dem existing programs be insufficient, need mo money
Parker Brooks
The problem with NASA is that it has many projects associated with Space exploration. It's sole project isn't in rockets, it's in science research. In the late 60's and early 70's when we went to the moon, all priority when to engineering a way to get to the moon and back. Now it's just broad research with a smaller budget. I wouldn't call it a waste, NASA scaled back on getting into space since we can rent a seat, and private businesses have success now.
John Phillips
Is Kek in favor of space travel then?
Brody Howard
Back to back 99s
Traveling the stars with a frog God confirmed
Nolan Reyes
We need to get off this rock and start terraforming other planets and moons and shit
Landon Garcia
With no magnetosphere, what is the point of trying to terraform Mars?
Luke Diaz
t. space jew
Jordan Johnson
>dying nope >waste of ressources yep we are smart enough to know there's not much we can do out there right now with current tech. 'Till new breakthroughs are achieved ressources invested in space will never give returns.
Nathan Gomez
Meant to say star systems, you're right. Those are still extremely far though
Jayden Thomas
But to what end? To what point?
For resources? Well then sure, but you dont need to terraform a planet or moon for that. Just enough to support a self contained base that can do the work.
For more "real estate"? Why? Just why? So you can increase the human population for the sake of just increasing the human population? At a horrendous expense? There is absolutely no point.
Even if it was a dead planet, with no life, there would be no point. But even worse would be terraforming another living planet and fucking up it life and ecosystems.
Isaiah Roberts
If there is one thing black science man was right about, it is that space exploration creates hero's and makes dreams a reality.
lol space exploration should be the last thing cut by the government.
if youre worried about wasteful spending how about you start with foodstamps ebt medicare medicaid section 8 housing protecting every others countries military paying for all of the UN etc etc
Gavin Davis
The colony ship looks like a gigantic dildo desu
Zachary Sanchez
The jews have infiltrated NASA and turned them into weather balloon merchants. Hopefully Trump will properly delegate those roles and push NASA towards deep space projects.
Brandon Scott
Why aren't aircraft powered by steam engines? Not enough power to weight ratio.
Why aren't we zooming around the solar system right now? Not enough specific impulse.
Chemical propellants have gone about as far as they're going to go. To improve rocket engine performance, there are basically two options. Fluorine and nuclear.
Using fluorine instead of oxygen as an oxidizer gives you a big boost in performance, but it is seriously toxic and dangerous to use. (Check out the YouTube videos on fluorine and chlorine trifluoride).
Nuclear simply isn't going to happen. End of story.
Basically, we're not going anywhere anytime soon.
Jaxon Murphy
Mars is going to blush pretty hard when it suddenly penetrates her atmosphere.
Nathan Wood
Exploration seems good enough a reason. Exploration made Europe
Justin Lopez
That's one thing that costs more the more money you throw at it.
Jordan Bell
It makes sense not only aerodynamically for liftoff (assuming it is assembled on the ground), but to reduce the chance of catastrophic collision with rocks.
Logan Williams
If we're going to live on Mars we have create technology that allows humans to live on extremely limited resources, grow food and recycle nearly everything. All the advances on technologies like that will help humans massively on Earth as well.
Luis Reyes
>self landing rocket that works Still makes me grin a year later.
If the news media would stop wasting time on russian hackers and being overall cucks to clicks, they should be telling us about the war in syria and the latest NASA developments.
Christian Rogers
You're right, it's a prison island designed to hold some of the worst shitposters on the planet.
Christian Green
Even better since NASA said it was impossible with current technology.
Sebastian King
No gps most certainly does require satellites.
Luke Edwards
How do you make breakthroughs without investing in R&D?
Nathaniel Perez
Is that one of Space X's rockets?
Hunter Kelly
That is badass.
Jason Watson
yes
Jose Wright
That's pretty fucking amazing if true, if that could be scaled up to carry larger (human) payloads we could be landing on Mars in a few years.
Christian Fisher
space
Zachary Thomas
youtube.com/watch?v=4jEz03Z8azc I cried when they landed the one on land for the first time and was very happen when they finally got one to land at sea. Mars is definitely a possibility when you take into account the potential reusability of rockets! Which is why Space X is so focused on Mars at the moment.
Dylan Murphy
If it exists and was discovered before it will eventually be discovered again.
Brandon Diaz
We do need to have at least some humans not on earth and on another celestial body. We have all our eggs in one basket and if something happens to that basket then all is lost. However I wouldn't be suprised if we had something like a moon base already but only top men know about it.
William Reed
That video is speed up right?
Joseph Hughes
>I cried What are you a woman? We don't need pussies out traveling the stars telling other systems about their Goldilocks zone privilege.
Julian Howard
Probably Jews nose
Isaiah Collins
Of course.
William Turner
yeah especially socialism
Evan Garcia
It's not a waste of resources but it does mean never going back to earth and probably dying in space.
>and it will probably be ruined by people trying to make everything diverse
Easton Taylor
>That's pretty fucking amazing if true What does this even mean? What do you think SpaceX does, memes?
Ryan Martin
Nasa also does a lot of important shit like monitoring space, equally important I think.
Asteroids (I think a 150ft'er went whipping by us between us and the moon recently)
Coronal mass ejection. That shit could fuck up our world pretty good.
Gamma ray bursts (I have no idea how they know this but one is supposed to hit us in December). One came blasting through in 2004 and tore part of the fucking atmosphere off.
Shit like that and such.
Don't we have enough problems here for the foreseeable future?
Aiden Wood
Next falcon9 is launching on saturday at 18:26 GMT .They plan to stream the launch and land in the ocean.
Nathan Rogers
They launch those at Canaveral? I'll be in florida so maybe I can go see it.
Austin Hernandez
In the ocean.
Charles Jackson
>I think last years budget for NASA was 1.7 billion. Off by an order of magnitude, chum. $19.3 billion in 2016. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
>I got used to seeing shuttle launches regularly on the NASA channel. The space shuttle had nothing to do with exploration, since it was unsuited to going anywhere or helping significantly with any missions to anywhere that NASA hadn't already gone. Ridiculous waste of money that should have been cancelled before Challenger (before its launch, really), and certainly shouldn't have been continued after.
The purpose was to make orbital launch cheaper through reusability, but it was several times more expensive than an expendable vehicle. Even the part that was always supposed to be expendable (the external tank) alone was as costly as a complete expendable rocket for the same payload, but that barely scratches the surface of what made it expensive.
Jason James
Not this one.Now they fly from CA because this gies to polar orbit and in september they blew up a rocket with zuckerverg sattelite so they are rebuilding slc40 but on 26th jan they will try to launch from pad 39A the same one that SaturnV and shuttle used.This year they plan to launch every 2 weeks
Cameron Murphy
Also the cancer that the shuttle was still lives on with the new SLS rocket with idiots at nasa wasting money on things like 300 million$ per engine when competitors could make simmilar ones for less than 10 mil.
Jonathan Bailey
We're going to waste all our wealth taking care of Shaniquia and her 17 niglets, then die at the bottom of this gravity well, unable to fund a simple rocket. But at least we won't be racist :^)
William Gutierrez
>Trusting obscure mongolian engines
Gavin Evans
Rd 170 detivatives are great but they are inferior compared with raptor and BE4 or BE3.Especially against Raptor there are no competitors anywhere in the world.
Tyler Ortiz
You missed the point leaf. Space shit was inspiring back then. Now nobody gives a fuck.
Kevin Perry
Investing in r&d doesn't necessarily have to go through NASA and space exploration. Imagine if they would've invested in the EMdrive instead of big leaguing the inventor and building shitty rockets that can take us to nowhere to go look at some antfarms on a useless (((international))) space station floating in orbit.
Aaron Sanchez
Who cares? we need to worry more about the poor refugees and islamic acceptance. Spending money for science is just evil!
Lincoln Gutierrez
I agree.
There are better places to live in an Arizona desert than anywhere on Mars.
Its so stupid
Gabriel Baker
THESE DIGITS CONFIRM. HE SPEAKS TO US. KEK WANTS US TO CONQUER THE STARS
Brody Bell
>Space shit was inspiring back then. Now nobody gives a fuck. You mean you were a dumb kid back then, and fell for the bullshit.
Since the end of Apollo, the American manned space program was based on lies and spin. They weren't doing anything that would lead on to greater things, but they were talking like it was. In fact, that's still what NASA's doing.
What SpaceX is doing, on the other hand, is genuinely ambitious and exciting. I don't know where you've been getting your information, but it seems to me that people are much more excited about SpaceX's progress and plans than they have been for NASA's in decades.
Landon Thomas
Ayys want the BHC (Big Human Cock)
Nicholas Rivera
obsolete technology
future rockets will be powered by lasers from ground
then fueled in space with water mined from the moon
Luke White
Space stuff is Fascinating
Liam Robinson
you have no idea the range of consequences. it would be the single most important moment in human history to date.
Dylan Peterson
They are still using fossil fuels!!! Hahahaha!
Andrew Russell
Stupid Bagguette Fag GPRS needs satelite. Hope you get blown as next
Adam Mitchell
It is a waste, but only due to limitation of current technology.
Solution is to develop a new method of propulsion and go crazy sending things into space to see if it works
Colton White
>building a lifeboat to abandon this gay nigger earth >waste of money
You are disallowed to pick both, although a single statement is to be selected.
Landon Nelson
There is literally nothing more important than developing space technology and ensuring our long-term survival in space.
Jackson White
But that's a nuclear plant...
Levi Butler
Space travel is an extreme version of a common belief that it is easier to run away from our problems than to solve them. Those who gleefully look forward to space colonization are either insane or brainwashed by fancy imagery to the point of religious devotion.
The optimistic belief in space travel, colonising Mars, etc.....has dangerous parallels with conventional religion. While it is human to seek comfort in religion, it is a misleading and dangerous way of thinking we should be aware of, and wary of.
As president Eisenhower once said, every ship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Jack Ramirez
The energy density required to even levitate a craft that is ultralight by rocket standards with a mirror tens of meters in radius would ionize the air Using reflected light is best for long-range propulsion, esp into deep space
Camden Wright
We need to work on our problems on earth first Can you imagine a future with space niggers?
Camden White
Don't remind the leaf he will never be a true American, you might hurt his feelings
Isaiah Bell
It's a really really really long term investment.
Jayden Brown
Every moment that 100% of humanity is on earth we are exposed to species obliteration by an existential catastrophe. Of course we have problems, but the survival of the species must come first.