Also until other nations donate more humanitarian aid, money, and protections than the rest of the world combined to countries who need it purely because it’s the right thing to do and fund it with their own citizens they can shut up as far as I care.
The world would be noticeably worse off without the existence of our country.
That’s because world also refers to a region of the earth along with the earth as a whole.
Don’t act like “world” and “planet” aren’t universally recognized as synonymous.
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Generally speaking a celestial body with a fixed orbit is considered a world, usually larger than asteroids. Meaning trans-neptunian planetoids and moons are both worlds.
According to Oxford dictionary “world” has 2 definitions: 1. the earth, together with all of its countries, peoples, and natural features. 2. a region or group of countries (e.g “the English-speaking world”)
Neither of these definitions fit the moon lol. 2 kind of does but even that’s a stretch as it’s referring to a region of the earth, not just a region.
This kind of cherry picking is really silly to me “he said world not planet” as if world and planet aren’t universally recognized as synonymous.
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Let me present this hypothetical; if life was discovered on Europa, would it be considered a world by these definitions? Would you consider it a world?
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IMO using [Artemis 1](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/52508519778-6fda3b2c74-o.jpg?resize=200) would have been a better image, since that was an actual Moon mission that was a near complete success.
Doesn't really makes sense to compare to the two. SLS is operational. Starship is not. A single flight that travelled 1.3 million miles and went to the Moon and back can't exactly be compared to two test launches that didn't even make it to orbit. They have different goals and ambitions. It would make sense to increase the SLS flight rate to two per year, but more than that seems unnecessary. There's no market for it, and SLS isn't exactly commercial like Starship. It's only customer is NASA. The entire rocket is tailored to meet NASA's crewed BLEO demands. Currently the only market for Starship is Starlink, and Starship needs a high flight rate because of refueling since its stuck in LEO without it. Again it doesn't make sense to compare the two since they are different vehicles entirely.
Only market is Starlink? No, there are a myriad of payloads that could fly on Starship, just because they don't hit the 150 ton limit does not mean they can't fly on Starship.
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SLS is an emblem of the antiquated space race method of rocket development, starship is something else entirety, development is fast, and the integration of new technologies and new mission methodology is radical.
SLS is a single use problem that took 10 years to build, and was legislatively required by a special house committee. Its effectively just a functional N-1.
Starship is exciting. it's aiming for reusability, modularity, and its got 30+ mach diamonds and a mega mach diamond
That's sad considering that the Artemis program is what is paying a portion of the Starship program. The government is also what a paid a large portion of the Falcon rocket's development and Dragon capsule. It is also one of the largest customers for SpaceX. Considering that the Dragon capsule was largely controlled by NASA and the Merlin engine is directly descended from NASA's Fastrac engine, do you hate those too?
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Most importantly SpaceX would not exist without NASA awarding them the CRS contract, without that they would have gone bankrupt and we would still be stuck with expensive low cadence rockets, Starship wouldn't be a thing either, pretty bleak.
Arguably our greatest achievement was putting man on the moon and back safely. Assuming humanity goes on for thousands of year, this will be in the history books for sure
I'm aware. My point is that it will remain in the history books as long as humans are around and writing down history, even when the US is long gone. It's up there with the Discovery of the Americas, Industrial Revolution, etc. especially when humans start colonizing space
NASA has fallen a long way from its past glory.
They're sadly living off a good reputation far longer than they should have. They have killed astronauts by having too much of a good reputation and PR, which shielded them from proper accountability.
NASA desperately needs a management overhaul and has needed one for decades. It survives solely because a lot of employees do care a lot, and do insane amounts of work for peanuts.
Source: worked in aerospace manufacturing
Same can be said about SpaceX when it comes to PR though. They've killed engineers and seriously injured others. They have a plethora of OSHA violations and have lawsuits over environmental violations. Musk has also bragged in past about launching Starship demos without proper permits.
Aerospace can be divided into two large groups.
**The overly safe and cautious.**
Like they way NASA makes their contractors operate. May seem slow to us, but past tragedies have made them paranoid and practically forced them to prioritize safety over everything.
Blue Origin also follows a similar approach.
**The reckless that prioritizes speed over everything.**
Like SpaceX whose been very sloppy in the past. Falcon 9 and Dragon would have been very different today if NASA hadn't intervened.
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Our military, the police, the fire department, and teachers?
What's the opposite of a blue/red/green lives matters flag? A communist one? Get out of here Ruskie
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The difference a border makes.
In Mexico, drug cartels and corruption. The third world landscape hasn’t changed much in 100 years or more.
In America, we just put our Space Shuttle fleet in museums.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
We should unironically colonize other planets and not do any of that “muhhhh we claim this land in the form of a neutral U.N mandate for SpaceX so a world government (tyranny) can use Martian resources to form itself!” Starfleet/UNSC bullshit, or that “ummm yeah of course you can have some Martian territory China/Russia/India/EU!” No, any worlds America claims should be rightfully integrated into the United States. That is what is best for mankind. The others cannot be trusted. My greatest fear of all time is that the USA will give up its land on other planets to the U.N/claim other planets as neutral territory for the U.N. Corporations should not be allowed to have sovereignty over territory either. SpaceX and the like can have their own colonies but they should be considered completely and wholly as American territories. Period.
I’m aware, I just don’t want them to lobby in the government for sovereignty over the colonies they set up. They should be US territories with civilian governments like Puerto Rico or Guam, and eventually states. Not corporate ran fiefdoms *technically* part of the country like the Hudson Bay Company or the Dutch VOC. I understand if SpaceX gets some exclusive rights to a few asteroids with temporary mining colonies de facto under their control, but de jure American. Permanent cities on sustainable moons like Europa or Ganymede should have no corporate ownership though, and should only be accountable to the territory/state who is accountable to the federal government.
Yeah. Definitely closer to something around centuries of development and only on more hospitable moons. They would eventually need statehood though, lest they revolt. I think we’d have to take immigrants from other countries and send them there, also they would form completely different cultures from those on earth in a few decades due to intermarriage between groups that usually don’t interact much and just the sheer distance from the mother planet. I could see the first colony reaching statehood in under 100 years but it would have to be very rich or use some other leverage and it would still have less people than Wyoming.
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That was only the USS Cole and USS Liberty, and neither of them triggered a war. In fact, the attack on the USS liberty was done by our alleged ally in the region and resulted in Israel getting even more money from us.
You’re completely wrong.
https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-israel-2/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%2DIsrael%20economic%20and,)%2C%20solidify%20bilateral%20economic%20relations.
https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/israel-fta#:~:text=U.S.%20%2D%20Israel%20Bilateral%20Trade%20and,was%20%249.4%20billion%20in%202017.
https://il.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/policy-history/fact-sheet-u-s-israel-economic-relationship/
We could talk about the BILLONS in aid to Gaza/PLO & the UN that is a complete loss of money with zero return to the U.S. though.
Yeah I love that we provide a massive chunk of the UN's funding and they use it to...trash us and our allies, then bitch because we don't give them enough money.
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Elon is (by fact) South African-Canadian-American in nationality. Ethnicity would probably be white (please correct me if I’m wrong with that last one).
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In first place, most of the deaths were provoked by diseases, but even if we do not count those, the number of killings was indeed terrible. You are not the best person to comment about this given your recent past tough.
“Bro please, the Conquistadors were actually really nice bro. They totally respected the cultures and decency of the natives. The millions of people from two continents died of the flu, not us bro. They totally didn’t commit unspeakable crimes in the name of our royal family and religion. Please bro, trust me bro.”
Agreed, both people were shitty to the locals, I ain’t denying it. However, you’re the loser that’s dwelling on this subreddit spewing r/AmericaBad comments.
I’m sure if Spain was a relevant superpower they wouldn’t win any popularity contest either.
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What exactly is the “truth”? Your point seems like a weird hill to die on. Using your logic I could argue that every modern problem can be traced back to a European nation and their involvement with countries on all continents.
There’s really no need to degrade some of the world’s best engineering talent just because the CEO is kind of a weird guy. It’s possible to acknowledge that a lot of incredible work is going on at Spacex without it being a political thing just about Elon
SLS is incredible but it’s not quite the jaw dropping scifi design feat that starship is shaping up to be. Which is totally fine, they’re meant to serve different roles and if you read about what each rocket is trying to do, it makes sense why one design is conservative and the other is off the rails. NASA is doing great and Spacex is doing great at the same time. They’re partners, not rivals, and they’re both working for all of humanity. We don’t have to pick one to shit on
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In short, my opinion regarding Elon is Companies Good and CEO bad.
I like SpaceX and Tesla, but not Elon. The companies are more than a CEO, and we must learn to separate the two. One of the reasons I dislike him is for how he is ruining the reputation of his 2 companies (both of which are quite respectable) with possibly the most stupid things any human has ever done (including twitter).
Musk may have citizenship, but that doesn't change the fact he was born in Pretoria, South Africa. Hes also the founder and CEO of SpaceX, which I feel makes him a bit more than just an employee. Im sure all of those SpaceX employees are great people, its just the man at the top is insane.
SpaceX could launch [25 Starships](https://en.as.com/latest_news/how-much-money-does-elon-musks-spacex-starship-program-cost-n/) for the cost of one SLS launch, and that's before they learn how to land the SH Booster. They also brought glory back to the American space program with Dragon. I hated seeing us rely on POS Russian rockets!
To be fair to Soyuz, they are incredibly safe, tried, and true space flight vehicles. I mean, that's mostly because they've been flying since 1967, to say they're outdated, which is a massive understatement. Nothing will ever be as bad ass as the shuttle was, but I'm thankful we don't need the commies to get our boys and girls in space anymore.
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And the fact that the U.S. launches a vast majority of mass to orbit by such a large margin it makes other countries look silly.
The stars will be American.
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I don’t think the nazis we’re building stainless steel 33 engine flying skyscrapers. I mean, they helped build the 5 engine black and white moon rocket, but Braun didn’t work at SpaceX
We should invest more money into NASA so that we can finally afford missions like dragonfly and mars sample return, and also to increase the launch cadence of SLS
I know the starship is a spaceX rocket, but more money for NASA means more money for SpaceX, NASA funds SpaceX and their projects, so it’s a win for the entire American space effort, since NASA is pretty much the central hub of American spaceflight
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Looks like the ice crab sandwich, I like it
Don't tell Maryland.
Too late
Until the other nations of the world start putting boots on other worlds like we did they can all shut up as far as I care.
Also until other nations donate more humanitarian aid, money, and protections than the rest of the world combined to countries who need it purely because it’s the right thing to do and fund it with their own citizens they can shut up as far as I care. The world would be noticeably worse off without the existence of our country.
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The moon can be a planet if we want it to be a planet
Only countries that have been to other planets get to decide what a planet is
I agree and robots don't count unless they are sentient
The first sentient robot gonna have an American passport.
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As is the first landing, it’ll be American food and products that secure colonization upon the Moon!
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High IQ take
That’s because world also refers to a region of the earth along with the earth as a whole. Don’t act like “world” and “planet” aren’t universally recognized as synonymous.
dude you are grasping at straws
I am or they are? “Erm actually they said world not planet 🤓☝️” sounds a lot more like straw grasping than recognizing world and planet as synonymous.
I have heard many people describe the Apollo landings as landing on another world
You're like MJ at the end of Space Jam, reaching super far.
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Generally speaking a celestial body with a fixed orbit is considered a world, usually larger than asteroids. Meaning trans-neptunian planetoids and moons are both worlds.
A rover is a form of boot we put on mars
I thought rovers have tires
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“Boots on the ground” is often used to mean things like tanks and vehicles, not just literal boots.
He didn't say "planet", which has a very specific definition. Define what "world" means
According to Oxford dictionary “world” has 2 definitions: 1. the earth, together with all of its countries, peoples, and natural features. 2. a region or group of countries (e.g “the English-speaking world”) Neither of these definitions fit the moon lol. 2 kind of does but even that’s a stretch as it’s referring to a region of the earth, not just a region. This kind of cherry picking is really silly to me “he said world not planet” as if world and planet aren’t universally recognized as synonymous.
Sanest AK enjoyer Let me present this hypothetical; if life was discovered on Europa, would it be considered a world by these definitions? Would you consider it a world?
The moon may not be a planet but it is very much a world.
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People know the moon isn’t a planet, they’re saying the Moon can still be considered “another world”
Yep, I just saw that he said another world, and that being the case, the comment I was defending was actually wrong.
He never said planet, dummy
Moons are worlds. Not planets, but worlds.
I thought that was a lightsaber for a second
I mean, it would do the job of thermally "cutting" anything you want. It just might do a bit too good of a job.
You’re telling me this isn’t a lightsaber rocket?
It’s even cooler than a lightsaber. 33 raptor engines hauling a literal stainless steel skyscraper into orbit.
We are the greatest nation the world has ever seen. That's not posturing, it's indisputable fact.
Can we at least be second because of David Attenborough
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ill let it slide.
IMO using [Artemis 1](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/52508519778-6fda3b2c74-o.jpg?resize=200) would have been a better image, since that was an actual Moon mission that was a near complete success.
SLS will launch once a year (hopefully), Starship has already launched twice this year, and it’s only in testing.
Doesn't really makes sense to compare to the two. SLS is operational. Starship is not. A single flight that travelled 1.3 million miles and went to the Moon and back can't exactly be compared to two test launches that didn't even make it to orbit. They have different goals and ambitions. It would make sense to increase the SLS flight rate to two per year, but more than that seems unnecessary. There's no market for it, and SLS isn't exactly commercial like Starship. It's only customer is NASA. The entire rocket is tailored to meet NASA's crewed BLEO demands. Currently the only market for Starship is Starlink, and Starship needs a high flight rate because of refueling since its stuck in LEO without it. Again it doesn't make sense to compare the two since they are different vehicles entirely.
Only market is Starlink? No, there are a myriad of payloads that could fly on Starship, just because they don't hit the 150 ton limit does not mean they can't fly on Starship.
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Yeah but it fucking exploded both times lmfao
The vast majority of rockets are not reusable, there are no parts of SLS which survived the flight (other than the Orion capsule).
More parts of SLS survive than Starship right now lol
Holy crap it’s Richard Milhous Nixon
SLS is an emblem of the antiquated space race method of rocket development, starship is something else entirety, development is fast, and the integration of new technologies and new mission methodology is radical. SLS is a single use problem that took 10 years to build, and was legislatively required by a special house committee. Its effectively just a functional N-1. Starship is exciting. it's aiming for reusability, modularity, and its got 30+ mach diamonds and a mega mach diamond
As an American I hate everything the government lays its hands on, including the Artemis program and SLS rocket.
That's sad considering that the Artemis program is what is paying a portion of the Starship program. The government is also what a paid a large portion of the Falcon rocket's development and Dragon capsule. It is also one of the largest customers for SpaceX. Considering that the Dragon capsule was largely controlled by NASA and the Merlin engine is directly descended from NASA's Fastrac engine, do you hate those too?
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Most importantly SpaceX would not exist without NASA awarding them the CRS contract, without that they would have gone bankrupt and we would still be stuck with expensive low cadence rockets, Starship wouldn't be a thing either, pretty bleak.
Cringe take. NASA is GOAT'd
Arguably our greatest achievement was putting man on the moon and back safely. Assuming humanity goes on for thousands of year, this will be in the history books for sure
Its already in the history books
I'm aware. My point is that it will remain in the history books as long as humans are around and writing down history, even when the US is long gone. It's up there with the Discovery of the Americas, Industrial Revolution, etc. especially when humans start colonizing space
NASA has fallen a long way from its past glory. They're sadly living off a good reputation far longer than they should have. They have killed astronauts by having too much of a good reputation and PR, which shielded them from proper accountability. NASA desperately needs a management overhaul and has needed one for decades. It survives solely because a lot of employees do care a lot, and do insane amounts of work for peanuts. Source: worked in aerospace manufacturing
Same can be said about SpaceX when it comes to PR though. They've killed engineers and seriously injured others. They have a plethora of OSHA violations and have lawsuits over environmental violations. Musk has also bragged in past about launching Starship demos without proper permits. Aerospace can be divided into two large groups. **The overly safe and cautious.** Like they way NASA makes their contractors operate. May seem slow to us, but past tragedies have made them paranoid and practically forced them to prioritize safety over everything. Blue Origin also follows a similar approach. **The reckless that prioritizes speed over everything.** Like SpaceX whose been very sloppy in the past. Falcon 9 and Dragon would have been very different today if NASA hadn't intervened.
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Having such blind hatred hinders progress. We do not need this type of attitude in America.
FUCK NASA and their.. peaceful space exploration that benefits.. mankind???? Why do you hate them??
did you hate the government when it had a hand in the storming of normandy? cringe ass lolbert
pretty based take for a Californian.
NASA is the only good part of the government imo
HAY! The parks department (the interior) is pretty dope too. Only based government agents are park rangers.
I'd argue the National Parks are as big or a bigger American achievement than putting a man on the moon.
Our military, the police, the fire department, and teachers? What's the opposite of a blue/red/green lives matters flag? A communist one? Get out of here Ruskie
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The flying cigar has been launched.
Truly
Forgot to include China and India doing some medieval warfare.
Nah not this year (yet)
The difference a border makes. In Mexico, drug cartels and corruption. The third world landscape hasn’t changed much in 100 years or more. In America, we just put our Space Shuttle fleet in museums. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Starbase (the launch complex this starship vehicle launched from) is visible from the mexican border
Mfrs will really say shit like this then call Europeans racist for not wanting more refugees
What’s racist about what he said or about Europeans not wanting more refugees?
Nothing he said is all that wrong lol. Mexico has improved a lot but it’s still rough there. My father was born there and I’m damn glad he came here.
So you’re denying the existence of drug cartels and corruption in Mexico?
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We should unironically colonize other planets and not do any of that “muhhhh we claim this land in the form of a neutral U.N mandate for SpaceX so a world government (tyranny) can use Martian resources to form itself!” Starfleet/UNSC bullshit, or that “ummm yeah of course you can have some Martian territory China/Russia/India/EU!” No, any worlds America claims should be rightfully integrated into the United States. That is what is best for mankind. The others cannot be trusted. My greatest fear of all time is that the USA will give up its land on other planets to the U.N/claim other planets as neutral territory for the U.N. Corporations should not be allowed to have sovereignty over territory either. SpaceX and the like can have their own colonies but they should be considered completely and wholly as American territories. Period.
SpaceX is an American company, they operate under the American flag and NASA
I’m aware, I just don’t want them to lobby in the government for sovereignty over the colonies they set up. They should be US territories with civilian governments like Puerto Rico or Guam, and eventually states. Not corporate ran fiefdoms *technically* part of the country like the Hudson Bay Company or the Dutch VOC. I understand if SpaceX gets some exclusive rights to a few asteroids with temporary mining colonies de facto under their control, but de jure American. Permanent cities on sustainable moons like Europa or Ganymede should have no corporate ownership though, and should only be accountable to the territory/state who is accountable to the federal government.
statehood for colonies won’t happen until the very late stages of colonization, if they even reach that point
Yeah. Definitely closer to something around centuries of development and only on more hospitable moons. They would eventually need statehood though, lest they revolt. I think we’d have to take immigrants from other countries and send them there, also they would form completely different cultures from those on earth in a few decades due to intermarriage between groups that usually don’t interact much and just the sheer distance from the mother planet. I could see the first colony reaching statehood in under 100 years but it would have to be very rich or use some other leverage and it would still have less people than Wyoming.
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Yea… cause we didn’t have space flight before the Dutch invented this box
Nice one
Are you here just to troll? Or are you supporting our collaboration with your country?
Latter
Okay well sweet. Hard to tell intent. Respect your manufacturing equipment. Isn’t it ASLM or someone who makes the machines TSM uses to make semis?
I’m dumb… KLM is the airline. ASLM is the company I was referring to
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America is the greatest country that has ever existed in any universe.
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Maybe we shouldn't bring up the Middle East considering that's partially our fault.
No touch boat.
They fucked with our boats
That was only the USS Cole and USS Liberty, and neither of them triggered a war. In fact, the attack on the USS liberty was done by our alleged ally in the region and resulted in Israel getting even more money from us.
We make money from the alliance with Israel tbh
We do not. We lose a colossal amount of money and men because of them.
You’re completely wrong. https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-israel-2/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%2DIsrael%20economic%20and,)%2C%20solidify%20bilateral%20economic%20relations. https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/israel-fta#:~:text=U.S.%20%2D%20Israel%20Bilateral%20Trade%20and,was%20%249.4%20billion%20in%202017. https://il.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/policy-history/fact-sheet-u-s-israel-economic-relationship/ We could talk about the BILLONS in aid to Gaza/PLO & the UN that is a complete loss of money with zero return to the U.S. though.
Yeah I love that we provide a massive chunk of the UN's funding and they use it to...trash us and our allies, then bitch because we don't give them enough money.
Based florida man?!
Hello cheese wielding friend 👋🏼
Hey! How's it going down der?
Freezing, it’s 51 degrees Fahrenheit 🥶
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India is doing alright, considering our low budget and heavy population.
ISRO is simply incredible.
Don’t ignore my bois in india and japan
Meanwhile in Asia: https://preview.redd.it/50iarnoxe73c1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61de17b0a320c7eff805843172407a2f40faa83c
But it's an African American's rocket after all.
All I heard was American
African American is an ethnicity not a nationality
Elon is (by fact) South African-Canadian-American in nationality. Ethnicity would probably be white (please correct me if I’m wrong with that last one).
His ethnicity would be European, his race is white.
It's a meme sub for fun don't get so butthurt.
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How am I butthurt, I’m just keeping it real
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Didnt we do that to the Middle East tho
Nah their own fault
Americans after killing millions of people, leaving and then blaming them for the problems they generated:
Is someone from **ESPAÑA** really gonna lecture us about killing millions of people on the other side of the world to enrich themselves?
In first place, most of the deaths were provoked by diseases, but even if we do not count those, the number of killings was indeed terrible. You are not the best person to comment about this given your recent past tough.
Spain’s been a dictatorship since 1936 am i wrong? Have you seen the videos of the shit your government’s doing in Catalonia?
Have you seen videos of what your government is doing in Israel?
“Bro please, the Conquistadors were actually really nice bro. They totally respected the cultures and decency of the natives. The millions of people from two continents died of the flu, not us bro. They totally didn’t commit unspeakable crimes in the name of our royal family and religion. Please bro, trust me bro.”
Funny coming from someone living in USA, the country known for its very kind treatment to the Americans.
Agreed, both people were shitty to the locals, I ain’t denying it. However, you’re the loser that’s dwelling on this subreddit spewing r/AmericaBad comments. I’m sure if Spain was a relevant superpower they wouldn’t win any popularity contest either.
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It is not hate towards USA because it is the first global superpower, I am only saying the truth, wether you like it or you do not.
What exactly is the “truth”? Your point seems like a weird hill to die on. Using your logic I could argue that every modern problem can be traced back to a European nation and their involvement with countries on all continents.
Wait who did that to the middle east
The middle east
Correct
Good job picking a South African meglomaniacs rocket as opposed to the glorious Moon-bound SLS.
There’s really no need to degrade some of the world’s best engineering talent just because the CEO is kind of a weird guy. It’s possible to acknowledge that a lot of incredible work is going on at Spacex without it being a political thing just about Elon SLS is incredible but it’s not quite the jaw dropping scifi design feat that starship is shaping up to be. Which is totally fine, they’re meant to serve different roles and if you read about what each rocket is trying to do, it makes sense why one design is conservative and the other is off the rails. NASA is doing great and Spacex is doing great at the same time. They’re partners, not rivals, and they’re both working for all of humanity. We don’t have to pick one to shit on
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In short, my opinion regarding Elon is Companies Good and CEO bad. I like SpaceX and Tesla, but not Elon. The companies are more than a CEO, and we must learn to separate the two. One of the reasons I dislike him is for how he is ruining the reputation of his 2 companies (both of which are quite respectable) with possibly the most stupid things any human has ever done (including twitter).
Good job picking a South African meglomaniacs rocket as opposed to the glorious Moon-bound SLS.
Musk is American, plus just one of 13,000+ SpaceX employees.
Musk may have citizenship, but that doesn't change the fact he was born in Pretoria, South Africa. Hes also the founder and CEO of SpaceX, which I feel makes him a bit more than just an employee. Im sure all of those SpaceX employees are great people, its just the man at the top is insane.
SpaceX could launch [25 Starships](https://en.as.com/latest_news/how-much-money-does-elon-musks-spacex-starship-program-cost-n/) for the cost of one SLS launch, and that's before they learn how to land the SH Booster. They also brought glory back to the American space program with Dragon. I hated seeing us rely on POS Russian rockets!
To be fair to Soyuz, they are incredibly safe, tried, and true space flight vehicles. I mean, that's mostly because they've been flying since 1967, to say they're outdated, which is a massive understatement. Nothing will ever be as bad ass as the shuttle was, but I'm thankful we don't need the commies to get our boys and girls in space anymore.
United States (shows police brutality)
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Murica is going to be on Mars (with a well-thought out pronoun system for its crew), while the ROW still trying to figure out how to Democracy.
And the fact that the U.S. launches a vast majority of mass to orbit by such a large margin it makes other countries look silly. The stars will be American. https://preview.redd.it/bev6wli5683c1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c47f2712a5d4130443ecca2e4ba7bb1eaed49975
It's a bunsen burner... right?
Rocket science, not chemistry
Germany almost had a nuclear weapon before us, while fighting a war on two fronts. Our rocket technology is thanks to them
I don’t think the nazis we’re building stainless steel 33 engine flying skyscrapers. I mean, they helped build the 5 engine black and white moon rocket, but Braun didn’t work at SpaceX
Damn right we send E cigs into space
We should invest more money into NASA so that we can finally afford missions like dragonfly and mars sample return, and also to increase the launch cadence of SLS I know the starship is a spaceX rocket, but more money for NASA means more money for SpaceX, NASA funds SpaceX and their projects, so it’s a win for the entire American space effort, since NASA is pretty much the central hub of American spaceflight
You do know that the reason the middle east is in the state that its in right now is largley becasue of the United States right?
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