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Now if only they'd use their immeasurable wealth to, oh, I don't know, work towards saving the one planet we have.
Glorious sauce: https://twitter.com/sim_kern/status/1411304471934685184
(originally posted by @ParallelParkingInABurka on 2021-07-03 20:04:13)
michaeloberg
Of course space is brutal, getting to Mars is EXPLORING. All of humanity has been brutal dark horrible work. It's ok for space to be too
BargYartson
https://maryroach.net/packing-for-mars.html This is a great read on the same subject.
ihateyouallandyouhatemetoo
sounds like rich people propaganda. im not convinced. i say we eat them to be on the safe side.
PolyTheWicked
“Eat the [rich]. They deserve to be somebody’s bacon” (it was originally “the rude”) - Dr. Lecter
TheWarHymn
Except they're building and stocking up luxury bunkers to ride out the storm.
TheWarHymn
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2020/03/27/billionaire-bunker-owners-are-preparing-for-the-ultimate-underground-escape
jaggcomputing5
Several replies. 1 Read A Step Farther out by Jerry Pournelle, especially the last few chapters. 2. Every time you stave off starvation 1/
jaggcomputing5
/2 you increase the number of those going to be starving further down the track. I know I sound like an arsehole but the numbers don't lie.
imakeeper
I'm honestly curious about the feasibility of spin-gravity stations.
lospaturno
first travels from EU to America were survival trips. Now they are comfortable. Your point is invalid on the long time scale.
pandajack
Are we people really worrying about this?
EchoWhiskyBravo
I mean, it takes about 1000 people for me to have this iPhone. I think our destiny is on space. It really has to be.
DrLOAC
This post is basically correct. You have no idea how much work it takes to even figure out where to point the solar arrays. That being >>
DrLOAC
Said, SpaceX has lowered our costs. They got paid half as much as Boeing to fly astronauts to the ISS & already have flown several times>>
DrLOAC
Boeing still has yet to fly their first manned flight.
lofiloop
They're not in this for a pissing contest. They're developing new business models. Why don't people get this? It's not hard.
TodayIDidNothing
I guess building a space company with their billions is better than doing nothing
ruint
no reason why a reinforced cave on the moon would be as dangerous as floating around in a fancy coat hanger
Raileks
I could've stuck it out until she said the wifi cuts out at regular intervals. That's the line for me.
RunLikeAnAntelope
What’s significant about that line
GlobalImageServiceCat
It grossly underestimates what science, engineering and commercial enterprise can do to advance tech.
cinecito360
The notion you need to fix problems in space so that you can then fix problems here is ludicrous.
TheWarHymn
It'll be cheaper and probably more comfortable to just build and outfit a luxury bunker in New Zealand.
Tarmaccian
Yep. Otherwise it’s accurate, but having a fuckton of problems to solve daily means we find a fuckton of solutions… sometimes useful ones.
JonathanMidwatch
Well, Bezo’s has pretty much said the goal is to put industries in space & staff them with expendable people / slave labor. Less QA/Regs.
CanuckleheadChick
You had me at 'dick measuring contest'.
Chromentor
That's gonna be a low orbit for me. *sigh*
MickeyCallahan
Bezos also going for penis look-alike contest.
Mcknizzle
I’m surprised this person would say this because the R&D put into this IS beneficial to all of space flight. Especially the ones working on
Mcknizzle
government contracts like spaceX, Boeing, Sierra Nevada. That list goes on. And they’re providing flights up that, on the lower tier ones,
Mcknizzle
are conceivably affordable for regular people. On top of that, the money spent isn’t being burned. It’s going to highly skilled individuals
Mcknizzle
that spent years studying and working in the field. STEM fields as well as going to further work on materials research and others. Space
Mcknizzle
flight, from NASA to roscosmos to the civilian sector has been a net benefit to all of humanity and, when that money is spent in the United
Mcknizzle
States, it’s actually an immediate and long term economic benefit as well. Short and sweet, any investment into space ops is a good thing!
whyexactly
At the same time, this pointless "race" has these dickheads actually spending money on something and getting it back into the economy ++
whyexactly
++ rather than just hoarding it like they usually do.
MagicalHamFlaps
the problem is that they know it is a pissing contest, they just do not care as the rich are so used to getting to do whatever they want
ShrokNil
We need to invent a device that can force someone to realize they are being stupid.
MrWizard1979
A clue by four.
Hashbrown123
They don't want to stay in space, they want Martian slave colonies where Earth can't get to them.
NotAgainRichard
people are very short sighted.
Ryermeke
I'll be honest... Fuck Musk but where did this slave colony stuff come from? I hear it a lot but see nothing supporting it...
Hashbrown123
It is the most logical plan. Plus he has outright said if you go to Mars with him you will essentially be a slave.
IAmDrBanner
People genuinely don't understand how far we are from Tv/Movie space travel conditions. I am not even talking capacity, I mean conditions.
Frogfox
Feeling dumb over here because I certainly didn’t. I knew we weren’t close but didn’t realize the extent
ShrokNil
If only billionaires spend their resources learning limits not bypassing the social consequences of stupidity.
SkeletorXD
In space no one can hear you in space.
Tuidjy
Clearly a lot of things aren't heard in space. Or at least the poster has failed to hear them. There's at least 4 gross mistakes in her post
RunLikeAnAntelope
Go on..
Tuidjy
Example: "The longest anyone has lived in space was Scott Kelly". He was out for 340d in a row, 520d total. Not even close to the longest
Justtakealookatthis
ALAN
FractalChainsaw
Scream not working because space make deaf.
Flyingwigs
Khatapillah
Alan.
Flyingwigs
Wake up Alan
tiduszecht
Don't fart in space.
jennym123
Efreeti
jdcream
I mean, you're not wrong.
SuperintendentHarrySnapperOrgans
Thank you for the laugh.
CommentsThisTimeLastYear
WE know that billionaires won't be able to escape Earth. The problem is that THEY don't know that... and they'll doom us all trying to do it
ShrokNil
What would it take to convince billionaires that physics isn't swayed by money?
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(originally by @INeverReadTheTOS on 2021-07-03 20:09:05)
LooseyGooseyBrett
I dont think anyone in their right mind think rich folk can escape to space.
redexodus
well they can but being rich out there won't matter lol. :D i love space
TheWarHymn
They don't need to escape earth, they just need to survive earth.
IdiotSavantTinker
That's something that would end in a really close-quarters civil war.
keystotheairlock
Heh, read the Conan the Barbarian story, Red Nails. That's how I see that going down. Quivering with fear and exhaustion, tortured to death.
Zeterai
There's an entire video game series about how poorly this would end for them. It's called Fallout.
StonesOnTheHill
They ain't planning to escape. They plan to claim what little good land remains, and die before the consequences reach them.
imakesoap
The problem is that the billionaires choose to spend their $ on fun space trips rather than using the $ to help solve some earthly issues
TheS4ndm4n
Those $ don't disappear. The only problem is that smart people can make more money sending billionaires to space vs fixing this planet.
imakesoap
Some disappears in unrecoverable/unreuseable rocket bits and fuel, but yeah lots of smart people spending their time to launch rich folks
TheS4ndm4n
The material disappeared. The $ went to the people that made those materials. And all that investment may lead to asteroid mining.
imakesoap
Well then perhaps they should have launched an exploratory asteroid mission rather than a bunch of rich guys
Isthe4thtimethecharm
They are all rushing to get a chance to start mining the moon and other things in space. They don't give a shit about us
Ryanator50
I always figured that they'd just build factories in space. no human rights in space.
RedWingedBlackbirds
Let them go, and let their underpaid workers be the thousands mentioned, in charge of keeping them alive. Bargaining power much?
PurpleSquare713
Once they're outside a certain distance from earth, remotely lock out flight control and cut off all communication. After a week, assuming~
PurpleSquare713
~they're still alive, then let's bargain.
vonHoopla
Why not just gather a flash mob and do it now? Remember there's literally a Twitter that tells you all his flights.
eiger3970
Tax the rich 92% like in the 50's.
PlumbingPredator
Heck yea!
TheWombatStrikesAgain
They can keep part of their wealth and all of their body or the other way around. Their choice.
QueenOfTheFey
Hell even if they could tax them at the same rate the rest of us are paying that'd be great.I should not be paying more taxes than BEZOS
eiger3970
Seems like taxing income is harder than corporations. Surely Bezos has an income to be taxed? What tricks does he use to avoid income tax?
yoseiwind
Paid mostly in stock, then borrow money against said stock when they want to buy something. Though billionaires have been selling massive
yoseiwind
Amounts of stock the last 18 months, they have high paid lawyers/accountants using system loopholes to not pay much/get paid by the gov
CuddleWings
I never understood how they pay these loans back? Sure they can get any loan they want, but without actual income, how’s it paid off? 1/2
TheN8
Except they don't want to live *in space*, their aim is to colonise other planets. As much as I hate Musk, SpaceX IS pushing the envelope.
Ryermeke
I like SpaceX for those reasons. I don't like Musk. I wish more people saw those as different things and Musk himself sure isn't helping...
Spuriusity
This
matthiasfactor
Do people actually believe they’re trying to do this?
Tarmaccian
Yes. The assumption is that billionaires are mandatorily evil. Since poisoning the Earth and escaping would be bad, they must be doing it.
astrangehop
Yes. Not the "live forever colony" but "space vacation resort home in their lifetime."
SIGMA920
I guess. Because that's not the goal in the slightest. And not expanding into space would just mean that we're stuck planetside forever.
amb1021
So? What's so wrong about staying on Earth?
matthiasfactor
Because at some point we will either run out of resources or the planet will be in some sort of other danger. Spreading out ensures we go on
ChrisWsrn
Earth is a cradle that humanity has outgrown. We need the resources that space offers to grow. If we grow on earth only we are dead.
FrolickingFrolicking
Humans are destroying earth. “Expanding” into space “colonialism” should be recognized as an egotistical virus and cancer. Fix earth.
SIGMA920
And in 50 years when we exhaust some critical resource that is abundant in space? Fixing the planet is a bandaid, expanding into space is
SIGMA920
the actual solution.In space we can ignore carbon emissions in factories,ignore all of the concerns that we have to deal with in atmosphere.
BojanglesTheFlyingCar
Dude look at that SpaceX/musk following
JohnMike64
But Musk has already said he doesn't want to go to Mars. He acknowledged mars will be extremely hard.
NotAgainRichard
people are poor and think rich=bad.
JohnMike64
I mean avoiding taxes and being shitty doesn't help. But the governments don't keep them in check as they are corrupted too
montyman185
I think everyone's forgotten just how much money the first company with space based industry is going to make.
NotAgainRichard
I think a lot of people didnt think about it in the first place to forget. There is a shitload out there. Tech up to get it.
ontarioOT
Chris Hadfield's biography is a good read for anyone interested in the training and life of an astronaut.
ratfacekilla
Yo I saw that guy at a Brian Cox lecture.
averageNerdyGuy
Canadian hero, boys and girls.
nigglemaster
Wtf you guys get all the cool ones. Just make Alaska a part of Canada. Save us.
Irarelypostbutwhenidoitsucks
We wanted it, but USA wanted it more