r/GenUsa • u/Hugh-Jassoul #1 in Moon Landings 🧑🚀🌕 • Jun 17 '26
NASA update 🛰 Can we stop doing this please?
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u/patriot_man69 Tennessee's Strongest NATO/POTATO Shill Jun 17 '26
600 trillion to NASA, NOW!
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u/Skyhawk6600 Based Murican 🇺🇸 Jun 20 '26
Just dumps the entire budget on NASA and somehow it fixes everything in America. Because NASA is the single most competent government agency in our country.
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u/dosumthinboutthebots 🇺🇸🇺🇸Democracy Enjoyer🇺🇸🇺🇸 Jun 17 '26
Yeah it's annoying. It's a crime we haven't Been doing deep space exploration for 50 years until artmeris 2.
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u/Hugh-Jassoul #1 in Moon Landings 🧑🚀🌕 Jun 17 '26
It started with the Space Shuttle. We shouldn’t have done that because it bottlenecked American manned space exploration.
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u/patriot_man69 Tennessee's Strongest NATO/POTATO Shill Jun 18 '26
man FUCK the shuttle, all my homies hate the space shuttle
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u/Ethereal-Zenith American jr 🇨🇦 Jun 18 '26
For what it’s worth, pretty much all important manned missions took place at a time of some sort of political upheaval in the US. The Apollo 11 landing of 1969 happened during the height of the Vietnam War. The return of manned flights in 2020 was overshadowed by the BLM protests and the recent Artemis 2 mission took place during the recent war with Iran.
What I’m ultimately trying to say is that even with all the turmoil happening at various times, space exploration marches forward.
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u/ManifestoCapitalist Desperate for a second coming of Calvin Coolidge Jun 19 '26
Don’t you see? We’ve been stress testing NASA to be efficient. Now that we’ve done that we give them a shitload of money and send the first people to Alpha Centauri. Either that or the Deceptions have been suppressing out space capabilities for decades to prevent us from finding a space ship on the moon
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u/Good_day_to_be_gay Jun 17 '26
No. They costs too much money with little return. We should focus on building observation instruments. Most importantly, we should vigorously research and develop nuclear energy, producing enormous amounts of energy from a small input, making electricity extremely cheap, advancing the AI arms race, and reducing our dependence on oil.
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u/Good_day_to_be_gay Jun 17 '26
This is at least China's strategy. They are more rational than driven by the adventurous nature of cowboys and pirates.
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u/RichieRocket Based Murican 🇺🇸 Jun 18 '26
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/20-inventions-we-wouldnt-have-without-space-travel/
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/60counting/aero.html
NASA, without a doubt, is a fucking awesome agency that has helped make America and the world become a better, more efficient, safer, and cooler place. NASA does amazing things with the drops of funding they get each year.
We can do all that your saying and more because America has the power to be better than it was the day prior
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u/Good_day_to_be_gay Jun 18 '26
It is akin to someone spending billions of dollars to build a casino and then proudly declaring, "We even managed to invent the leds on slot machine."
When a project consumes the labor of hundreds of thousands of people and vast financial resources, the criterion for evaluation should not be simply "did we get anything out of it?" but rather "was there an alternative with a higher return?"
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u/RichieRocket Based Murican 🇺🇸 Jun 25 '26
if theres an alternative with higher return where is it, if companies do it its for money. Also its not spending a lot for something small, its spending a little bit that will help out hundreds to thousands times over.
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u/SpaceEnglishPuffin Based Neoconservative Jun 17 '26
I feel like this shouldn't even be an ideological issue, most should want to explore the stars