‘What a lie’: Danish astronaut responds to Musk claim that Biden abandoned ISS pair on purpose
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Im trying to figure out the angle on that one. I suppose he thinks if its deorbited during Trumps term, he can corrupt his way to extremely lucritive contracts building a new one that he can charge rent for. At the very least lucritive contracts to send all the parts for a new one to space.
By 2030 he'll be in exile somewhere evading prison, so it has to happen ASAP.
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Lets be honest, thats not nothing of consequence. Thats rounding the wagons up and energizing the base.
There are three special elections coming up that could take away the GOP majority. They need to do things with high optics that show strength; things that energize the base. Saying "we cant do anything" regsrdless of the truth in it LOOKS WEAK. Thats not a way to show leadership.
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Thats rounding the wagons up and energizing the base.
Soooo....... Nothing of consequence. Quite literally nothing of consequence. Like what did all those BLM protests do? Did it rally the voters? NOPE.
And as much as a hate this phrase, they have to pick their battles. No one cares about USAID (oh wait this is lemmy who misreads. It is important, but at a voting level population that wins elections, far far far too few people care). At this point, pretty much the only people that care about the layoffs are the people laid off (again, talking about voting level population). They won't care until their social security stops coming, or their special needs kid gets defunded. That's how people operate. Dems have to pick a few items and really highlight them. If they pick everything, then nothing comes across.
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The ISS is also a symbol I think. The “International” Space Station. Think about how Soviet and American’s worked together on Skylab, and how that inspired the creation of what is truly a marvel and testament to humanity. Space has a been a place for the future and hope - it doesn’t matter who you are or where you came from, what matters is the spirit of exploration and desire to better understand the universe.
Elon wants his name on a Mars mission above everything else. He wants history to talk about how he got us there, and imagines a future where planetary exploration allows his progeny to be lords of entire planets. Safety doesn’t matter, and we’ll probably end up with the first Americans to die in space in the next few years. (Will the US space program become as secret as the Soviet era one?)
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He's pretty transparent in his conflict of interest. He wants a SpaceX contract for a Mars mission. In the same tweet he said the ISS needs to be deorbited, he also said "let's go to Mars instead!" This is him trying to make that happen. In a better world, this kind of blatant cronyism would be immediately punished.
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You’re getting downvoted for your hubris. You really think that, before you, nobody had thought about an emergency escape plan for the fucking space station?
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On top of everything else, the fact that he called someone, anyone, "fully retarded" publicly and in writing blows me away. It's literally a grade school level insult, and cringey as fuck coming from an adult.
Who reads a tweet like that and comes away thinking anything other than "holy shit, what a sad manchild"?
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Wasn’t this technically Boeing’s fault for those astronauts being up there for so long in the first place?
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We need it to be far enough out they can't just blame the prior administration.
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Probably wants to shift the funds to a moon mission and then award himself contracts from that budget to fund Starship. ISS is less useful for him now since he's already used contracts for supplying to develop F9, and contracts for crew missions to develop crew Dragon.
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Jesus, Mogensen has balls the size of moons. (that's no moon)
The stranded people are still on the ISS, waiting for SpaceX to get around to it. Pissing in Mush's fragile Wheaties is a dangerous proposition. He could say ehhh, canceling this attempt and wait for an apology.
Come to think of it, with them dismantling the government; I think the last place I'd want to be is on the ISS, relying on the government to get me back down.
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"Nigh is the time of Madness and Distain" - The Witcher 3
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It was a legit question. Excuse me!
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like a bunch of plane crashes?
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Danish astronaut responds to Musk
claimlie that Biden abandoned ISS pair on purposeWhy do we have to keep doing the media's work for them?
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A) there hasn't really been much of an uptick there overall
B) it'd have to be wayyy more wrong than that to have an impact on the direction of things. -
Just keep this experience in mind next time you doubt, for example, generally accepted practices in public health policy.
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I get that you're disheartened but pick yourself up.
Do you know that the vast majority of people lived in absolute poverty, working every working hour for not enough money to eat?
That's really wage slaving, when you're too poor to have a home or even to rent a bed and you sleep stood up against a rope to stop you falling on the floor.
Or you can't make it and you go into a workhouse, separated from your kids and made to work for no money and given gruel to eat.
The way people got out of that hell was to organise, to fight, to keep fighting. That's how workers won ALL the rights which are normal in the west - minimum wage, no child labour, maternity pay... Every single decent law was fought for.
So don't tell me we or you have it hard right now, just because things are harder than you're used to and we're all scared.
We've had it easier all our lives and most of us didn't want to go out of our comfort zone to fight to make life better. Our chickens are coming home to roost now.
Let's try to lift each other up instead of demoralising each other.
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What the hell are you about. I think this is a case of projection, you are disheartened so you project it on to others.
I'm just saying/observing/analyzing that it's nothing of consequence. People expect the Dems to magically solve the Trump problem (all this "why don't they do something??") and I'm saying they can't do anything of consequence.
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You're telling people to do nothing and there's no point in doing anything until some imaginary worthwhile battle...
And yeah I am disheartened, of course I am, this is a terrible situation to be in. I'm arguing that we still have to fight. Everyone who understands what is going on and cares has to fight with the blitz spirit - when your enemy is much more powerful and on paper is going to kick your ass 100% certain and is bombing the crap out of you every day but the stakes are so high you fight anyway and fight harder.
