ofc a comment like that would get downvoted by investors and technologists, but yes i agree, if you have enough imagination and money, almost anything in engineering is eventually possible. that same imagination and money is rarely spent on making the experience of living beings who are suffering nicer. but we dont live in a 1D world and all people need a win, engineering nerds included.
Space is unique in consistently attracting comments like GP's. Literally no other endeavor, no matter how boring or silly, attracts these. Has been so since before the Internet, even.
Even pointing out that this is just private company doing private stuff - so no government money to accuse of being misallocated, which was the only thing that gave those evergreen comments some legitimacy - won't help. I guess it's just inertia now.
At least this is talking about homelessness and not feeding people; the latter was getting too easy to push back on by pointing out just how much space contributed to farming and food security.
i was posting in support of all parties, the nerds and the homeless. i guess space attracts these sorts of comments because of the extreme contrast. on the one hand, going to space takes enormous energy, manpower and money, and its easy to claim misallocation of resources when the extremes are so glaring. its a good opportunity to point these things out when theyre so obvious.
Even pointing out that this is just private company doing private stuff - so no government money to accuse of being misallocated, which was the only thing that gave those evergreen comments some legitimacy - won't help. I guess it's just inertia now.
At least this is talking about homelessness and not feeding people; the latter was getting too easy to push back on by pointing out just how much space contributed to farming and food security.
They have at least $3.6 billion from the US to misallocate. Closer to $10 billion.
https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/8a3a5525-3218-a488-db0...
https://lew.am/comparing-subsidies-received-by-spacex-boeing...