jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoAir Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launchesarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down14cross-posted to: spaceflight
arrow-up1129arrow-down1external-linkAir Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launchesarstechnica.comjeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: spaceflight
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down32·7 months agoYeah, why aren’t regular folks building reusable heavy-lift rocket systems?
minus-squarewebghost0101@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·edit-27 months agoWhy cant scientific progress not be a group effort with everyone doing their part according to their means? Why does it have to be the greed addicts with the power to initiate human greatness and ingenuity? Don’t we all want essentially the same things? sustainable production of (luxury) goods sustainable power production sustainable homes in a sustainable climate to evolve as a species and explore more of the unknowns in the cosmos
minus-squarewagesj45@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down1·7 months agoI wish we were, through taxes. Though we’d probably just pay Boeing forty-eleventy billion dollars to never complete the project.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·7 months agoRegular folks aren’t sociopaths.
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·7 months agoSome are, but they still don’t build rockets. I think there’s some other factor that’s important.
Yeah, why aren’t regular folks building reusable heavy-lift rocket systems?
Why cant scientific progress not be a group effort with everyone doing their part according to their means?
Why does it have to be the greed addicts with the power to initiate human greatness and ingenuity?
Don’t we all want essentially the same things?
sustainable production of (luxury) goods
sustainable power production
sustainable homes in a sustainable climate
to evolve as a species and explore more of the unknowns in the cosmos
I wish we were, through taxes. Though we’d probably just pay Boeing forty-eleventy billion dollars to never complete the project.
Regular folks aren’t sociopaths.
Some are, but they still don’t build rockets. I think there’s some other factor that’s important.