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US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 155 points 10 months ago (5 children)

If they were truly concerned, they’d start giving it the funding it deserves.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

They've tried everything except actually funding NASA, and they're all outta ideas.

NOTE: China WILL overtake NASA, the same way they are dominating the renewable energy sector — because they invest heavily in science, and they do it early. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand this shit.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (3 children)

But hey we tried giving a shit load of money to a billionaire space nazi instead!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Won't someone think of the investors!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe we need to give more to the space phallus that the other asshole billionaire built. Maybe that’ll fix it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You guys male me wanna cry…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Maybe we should give money to fund education and research instead of banning books and attacking each other.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I came here to say exactly this.

Perhaps a space race with China would rekindle the motivation for our money grubbing demagogues to actually fund it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, it won't. They'll just relocate to China, or maybe a super yacht out in international waters. They'll continue milking every last cent out of the US until it's a dead dried up husk of a nation and then they'll just move to the next one. Their supporters are too stupid to realize where the end of the path they've been told to walk is going to take them, and they'd rather blame anyone else but themselves for all the problems they face. So no, a space race with China won't fix shit.

[–] demesisx 6 points 10 months ago

Judging by the state of the US, you're much more likely to be right than I am, you cynical bastard!

😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but Israel /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

So expect a big increase in private space missions