People would be more excited for SpaceX missions, if it wasn't owned by a Nazi pedophile lover.
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After the 100th launch to put more junk in orbit, it not only gets boring but it's also annoying knowing how much crap is being put into the sky.
I'd guess after the 50th or so launch to the moon that people would be less interested as well.
50? We didn't get past 6 crewed landings the first time.
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- Plenty of people were interested in Spacex flights. People did sour after he stopped looking like iron man and started being lex luthor by opening his mouth more
- Artemis is still not as impressive/envelope pushing to joe sixpack, since it's "just" flying around the moon again. By this time, we are expecting moon bases or other advances of technology, since you know, actually LANDING on the moon started in the late 60s. It's been 60 years.
Even to the space crowd, SLS doesn’t really introduce anything new.
But when the Falcon 9 landed, and then the heavy’s dual landing. That was hype.
I forgot that yeah, part of the hype was the re-useable rockets and their landing, which wasn't going new places, but was doing something new.
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Ok I’m going to be that guy who sounds like a musk fanboy but rest assured I fucking hate that Nazi. That said, people don’t care about spacex launches because they have become so routine as to be boring.in a historical context there came a point where people stopped caring about airplanes because they stopped crashing. This is good. Rockets becoming reliable enough to become boring and routine is a net gain for humanity. I just wish spacex weren’t owned by that goose stepping fascist
Youngsters don't realize that people became fucking bored with the Apollo missions after 11. Apollo 13 generated some buzz because the crew was probably going to die, but that's it. Same thing happened with the space shuttle.
Agreed. I think people need to understand that Musk isn’t a scientist, he’s just the money. The actual people working at SpaceX are doing great stuff.
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Well also personally I lost interest because I got sick of Elon time. I'm pretty sure by his estimate we were supposed to have megastructures by now.
It's also worth noting that reusable rockets are interesting but if they just go up deploy satellite and then come back down that's not very interesting compared to going to the moon.
I know SpaceX are supposed to be building a lunar lander but we've heard nothing about that for years now. Where is it, Artemis III is going to need it in less than a year. Have they even started construction?
I’m pretty sure by his estimate we were supposed to have megastructures by now.
This exactly. Musk has been talking ginormic shit for decades, and delivered peanuts. Destroying the USA in the process.
How good is the re-usability even going? That's the only plus I see wrt SpaceX.
The re-useability is also mainly a marketing point. It sounds cool on paper but SpaceX only reduces the cost by 10% discount when utilizing old boosters. The usefulness of cost savings is overblown.
The usefulness ... is overblown.
Ain't that the truth for everything E Musk produces.
And it could be so great, done properly.
He's giving electric cars and reusable rockets a bad rep actually.
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We stopped the space exploration shit on our own and I suspect the lack of interest in Artemis has less to do with Elon blowing rockets up, sending a car into space, and using it as another portal for him to be the biggest fucking government welfare grifter of all time... and more to do with the fact that a lot of us are stressed, starving, and/or worried about the near future.
The fuck does slingshotting around the moon do right now to help us? Does it bring pedophiles to justice? Does it give us hope? Nope. I was jealous that they got to leave this God forsaken burning bullshit planet for a few days.
Nothing good is happening at the moment. The bread is stale. We've all seen the circus shows.
I'm tired. I'm angry. I don't give a fuck about space.
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People have been really hyped for space x, when they first landed a booster and now when they do test launches of Starship and when they caught the super heavy booster it was incredible.
People care about Artemis II because it's crewed spaceflight to the moon. Artemis I didn't get nearly as much attention.
By “people” you mean space nerds. But Artemis crossed over into the mainstream.
So did the starship launch, it was all over the news and randoms at my work were talking about it.
And the dual Falcon Heavy booster landing way back.
Back then the SLS programme seemed like the worst kind of wasteful mismanaged project that'll never fly and would be made obsolete by Starship, these days I'm glad there's something left to cheer for since the only moral choice is to hope that everything SpaceX makes explodes on the pad.
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I mean... If SoaceX had sent people around the moon, then I think the general public would have been interested in that.
I think it was more about the mission, not the org that made the craft.
SpaceX doesn't even send people into space itself. They mostly just send exploding debris into the ocean.
They're the main way of taking astronauts to the ISS.
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not gonna crop out that username? isn't that an ad for Betty Bowers?
No, that’s kinda c/microblogmemes’ whole thing.
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Elon maybe a huge turd but I think the plan is to use spacex's propulsion systems when the mission will involve landing on the moon in future.
somehow, I'm completely indifferent.
I love science, and space, put in 1000s hours in Kerbal Space Program. followed space news though all my life. but now? with all that's going on. A genocide perpetrated by a country claiming it's for me, the US has become a fascist hell hole, rights are eroding so fast... I genuinely don't care about this anymore.
if it was a few years ago I would me following with exhalted breath. I would have taken time off work, and taken the kids off school to follow it, and play KSP emulating the mission. and watch space movies. and YouTube videos about the mission and spaceship... I was a massive space nerd.
Can't care about one rocket on the moon when we are sending thousands of rollers to kill civilians
I feel this so much. I followed every NASA mission starting around 1965, with Gemini. I got a subscription to National Geographic because they had the best space pictures. I was an Apollo 11 fanboy, and cut articles out of the newspaper and put them in a scrapbook. I had models of the Saturn V and the Lunar Module. I was a hard core space kid.
But now it feels so empty. The entire world is a mess, and it's probably going to get a LOT worse before it gets better, and I just don't feel like cheering for my country anymore. I love the Olympics, but I couldn't get into it this year. This was basically Apollo 8, with more complex computers (that didn't work), and 1000x the budget. It's hard to get excited about re-inventing the wheel, especially when everything else is so bad.
The wealthy (and the MAGA government is just an extension of the wealthy) would rather throw their money away on rockets, than spend an extra dime on taxes or higher wages. If not rockets, than AI, or some other cockamamie expensive solution in search of a non-existent problem. I just can't stop thinking about what a waste of money all of this is, when America is such a shithole country.
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Honestly, I didn't know Artimus was happening. That's how busy the news is. I saw memes about astronauts and Outlook, assumed it was the ISS, and only when I saw the pictures of the Earth from the moon was I like "Wait, what? We have humans going to the moon right now? And they're already there? When did that happen?"
They're living out their dreams, and doing something very rare for our species, and I wouldn't recognize them if they were in line in front of me at the grocery store. Huh.
I think it's *Artemis. And II, specifically. This mission was the farthest any known human has been from Earth. They’re doing several more in the Artemis line, including putting boots on the moon (2029, I think)
The space race is back.
I love the qualifier “known human” hahahaha!
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I think that's just you.
It also helps that this one didn't explode immediately due to lazy fast-fail engineering, scattering billions of tax dollars across the landscape while a bunch of drunken tech dude-bros cheer.
Probably would’ve been cheaper, faster, and better engineered if they did though. The reason NASA doesn’t do it is PR.
NASA funding is dependent on public opinion (well it was until recently). Blowing up rockets gets people really upset when they think it's their tax dollars.
Somehow SpaceX has convinced people it's a private company and not funded by government contracts and taxes.
Blowing up rockets gets people really upset when they think it’s their tax dollars.
I love spaceflight and what the Artemis II accomplished, but it came with an absolutely staggering price tag. It cost a bit more than $50 Billion to design including both the rocket and the Orion capsule. It costs $1Billion each time it launches too. We only bought enough parts for 4 flights of the rocket, and we've now used 2 of those.
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SpaceX is by far the cheapest way to launch a satellite. As a taxpayer, that seems like a good choice, IMO.
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space x was always about space tourism, and to make money from starlink.
Does it? People used to get excited and SpaceX's achievements and milestones too, back when rockets weren't reusable yet. I think it has just become so routine now.
Also, there were humans on board. Also, moon.
Also, SpaceX and NASA both have teams of engineers (and some of them have worked for both).
To be clear: I'm not defending Elon here. I'm just pointing out the ridiculousness of posts like these.
Yeah, I think if Space X sent a crew to the moon then the reaction would've mostly been the same.
I mean one (if I'm remembering correctly) went further into space than any human has been thus far, the other is an interesting technical step to normalising space flight.
It'd be very weird if people were equally excited about both.
We should nationalize space x
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