We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because you've seen the other shit this country spends tax money on. At least going to the moon is cool.

April 01, 2026 - 23:49 UTC

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Yeah let's just blow the entire "bombing kids" budget on space shit
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Ha! Finally a laugh today. It IS cool
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We’d be a lot better off if the military and the space program budgets were switched.
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Fuck the moon and space! I want it to be nice to live HERE!
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Elon wants you to live on Mars, and for living on Mars to suck ass except if you're a billionaire.
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youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4?si=obf1CoNYgxCi3XrR
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It also costs only a tiny little fraction of what it costs to mass murder children so really, it's all upside.
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Aren’t they _just_ going around the moon and not actually to it?
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For this flight yeah, basically Apollo 8. The lander isn't finalized anyways, but this is mainly a shakedown cruise of the new spacecraft.
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I read this in JFK's voice/accent in my head haha
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General rule of thumb; If you can’t surf or fly a hang glider at your destination it isn’t cool.
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Whitey's on the moon, and frankly we're all more comfortable with him being there rather than starting fires on Earth.
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a musky moonshot is not what anyone signed up for in Space Force
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Say what you want about vaporizing islands in the pacific with artificial suns, at least it looked dope as shit.
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It's what's next.
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I would argue that last point.
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Apollo 13: first time as tragedy, second as farce.
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Trump wants to claim the moon for America and put weapons in space. Hard to get excited about Artemis under those circumstances.
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At least the NASA folks are actually qualified for this job!
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Alt text: David Cross standing at a podium, NASA's logo behind him, he's leaning into the microphone and stating, "America can, should, must, and will blow up the moon."

My bad.
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Nasa belongs to Elon musk and space x shareholders now but sure whatever
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Sorry, can't do it.
Yes, there's an urge to cheer people on in a great undertaking
Yes, there might be great scientific benefits
Yes, there's a Canadian on the team
But it's just so American, so capitalistic-sounding (helium-mining).
In today's climate, really can't get excited about it.
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Does this mean the MAGAt mouth breathers will FINALLY believe in moon landings?
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We need to go back to recover the equipment they used for the location shots in the fake landing in the 60s.
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At this point I wouldn't mind leaving the surly bonds of earth for a couple of days.
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The surly bond traders of earth ...
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It also costs less than a WH ballroom.
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I wonder what "The other things" of our generation is
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At least it's not a metaphor for Jackie Gleason beating his wife, anymore.
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Going to the Moon was too expensive. America's going to fly by it instead.
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Have you seen this today?
youtu.be/GgH2ExDVlwc?si=aq0idWSUGvMvD29H
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They put a lot of effort into this joke. 😆 🤣
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Money being spent on Cool Space Stuff is Good and Cool.
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My coworkers: I can’t believe we’re going to the moon in the middle of this shit!
Me: in the middle of all the bullshit at least we’re going to the moon.
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Alice, we are not going to the moon.
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Someone's gotta find a way to mine all that tritium before China
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I would rather spend money on the space program than having Trump steal it for himself.

And Elon had nothing to do with it!
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Guess who is building the landers for the return mission. It's SpaceX!
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“We chose to go to the moon in this decade and do other things, not because they are easy, but because it was harder to distract Americans from the Epstein files” JFK’s nephew probably
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We choose to go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it makes obscenely rich people even more rich.
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Also our investors want to put a datacenter up there.
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I thought there was a 10% chance Trump was going to announce he was defunding Artemis to pay TSA agents because of the Dems
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And the advancements in material sciences alone makes it worth it.

What's nice about NASA vs corpos is NASA has to build next gen tech with a shoestring budget. Corpos can take whatever kind of works and let marketing fix it, like calling LLMs "AI".
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ngl I had genuine fears the thing was gonna kaboom and almost didn’t show my toddler

really glad I did. she was amazed 🤩
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I read this in JFK's voice and cadence; well done Robert
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I read this to my husband in my best JFK voice.
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If NASA had been funded with half of what we give the DoD I'd be typing this from my Space House on my Space Keyboard
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We've spent tax dollars trying to turn cats into spies.
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Cat spymaster. I could have been a contender.
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Not to mention the fatality rate of getting shot into space by NASA is something like 2-3%, it's the closest thing to a real-life Hunger Games we're gonna get
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Yeah, and plus Musk isn't involved.
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Just you wait. This is probably part of a plan to carve Trump's face into its surface.
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I wish we could spend more tax money going to the moon.
After we get UBIs and socialized healthcare of course
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This is awesome! 👏
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JFK voice or Boston voice?
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Fill the capsule with ICE instead of astronauts and let Sean Duffy handle the return trip.
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Oops navigation error...
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We should all be proud of how far our country has come since our 1st trip to the moon. No p̶r̶o̶t̶e̶s̶t̶s̶ ̶o̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶c̶i̶v̶i̶l̶ ̶r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶s̶ ̶i̶s̶s̶u̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶r̶a̶c̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶v̶i̶o̶l̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶l̶a̶w̶ ̶e̶n̶f̶o̶r̶c̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶,̶ ̶e̶x̶t̶r̶e̶m̶e̶ ̶p̶o̶l̶i̶t̶i̶c̶a̶l̶ ̶p̶o̶l̶a̶r̶i̶z̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶,̶ ̶w̶e̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶P̶r̶e̶s̶i̶d̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶c̶r̶o̶o̶k̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶c̶r̶i̶m̶i̶n̶a̶l̶,̶ ̶w̶e̶'̶r̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶i̶n̶v̶o̶l̶v̶e̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶u̶n̶p̶o̶p̶u̶l̶a̶r̶ ̶w̶a̶r̶... Shit.
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I'm old enough that this made me cry
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So much cooler and cheaper than bombing Iran for no real point
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We’re going around the moon.
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A moon bending
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Just watched Artemis launch to circle the moon. I felt the same as in 1961 when Allan Shepherd, 1st American, launched 15 minutes up and down into space. I was 10. My mom, so excited, invited the milkman in to watch it with us on our black & white TV. So happy to forget politics for a few minutes
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i'm surprised the trump administration didn't try to replace the rocket's fuel with beef tallow
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Just give it a few hours…
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Was a highlight of an otherwise not great week. And for those criticizing spaceflight spending, why not take some money out of the military and redirect it to all the necessities we lack? Like why are we taking from one of the few good things our country does instead of the murder machine? Why not
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redirect Boeing, Lockheed, and Raytheon (Still not calling them RTX or whatever) from building weapons of war to building exploration of the worlds above?
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Bombs are cool, Robert. Missiles? Dope as hell. Guns? Make ya look cool. All the cool kids have digital panopticons, too! I am twelve, btw.
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Oh damn, and we've got a Canadian on that thing too
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Hahahaha. I will stop you when you’re wrong!
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"Baby, we choose to take off my pants not because I am easy, but because it is hard."
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I'd rather overspend on science than overspend on literally anything else.
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Also, going to the moon involves a lot of pure science and novel engineering research, which is both ripshit badass and has a high ROI.
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Good thing all the investment now goes directly into shareholders offshore accounts
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I wish we spend just a little teeny bit of money on researching women’s health. You know we’re over half of the population.
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A rat done bit my sister Nell.
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www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis-2-pilot-victor-glover-whitey-on-the-moon-
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Her face and arms began to swell
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Science, at least the bare minimum 😭

Super happy that this is still going ahead, here's hoping their new administrator will go get them the funding! Especially with their Ignition plans!
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it is indeed very cool
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