Current Events > Anyone else annoyed how these billionaire fuckers are going to space?

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Like what fucking assholes. All these poor people that work for them under bad conditions and shit and they spend their money like that.

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Nope
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Good riddance

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NDT said they didn't go to space really so lol

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These conversations are alway productive here/s. This is only a conversation I can have in real life. I wanna see the person defend it in real time.

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Honestly, it's great. Jokes aside, it's a net positive. By creating a demand, it pushes the need to develop safer, faster space travel. At least their money goes to a good use.

cuh posted...

They know something we dont. Humanity on Earth is ending within 20 years.

This, exactly.

Can't think if a single reason to give a shit

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Nah... if I had the money I'd try it too.

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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Nah... if I had the money I'd try it too.

But instead of helping people though?

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Reminder that "2001: A Space Odyssey" was supposed to happen 20 years ago
>_>

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Patty_Fleur posted...

But instead of helping people though?

Well.. I would too

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Patty_Fleur posted...

But instead of helping people though?

Some people mastered narcissism. They don't give a shit. Or they'll convince themselves what they do is for everyone in the end and purposely avoid thinking pass the surface level of that. You don't have to tune into people suffering and they just don't.

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No, I'm annoyed that Richard Branson came back.

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Rhylos posted...

Honestly, it's great. Jokes aside, it's a net positive. By creating a demand, it pushes the need to develop safer, faster space travel. At least their money goes to a good use.

I assumed that it was for faster travel in general.

Been talk for years about having passenger flights like this.


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Why? It doesn't affect you

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Patty_Fleur posted...

But instead of helping people though?

Well nobody is gonna help me.

I mean people give it then they should take it.

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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

I assumed that it was for faster travel in general.

Been talk for years about having passenger flights like this.

Owning a car, a computer, going on cross country flights used to be signs of wealth. Space travel is now but eventually won't be. Probably not in my lifetime though.

Billionaires would rather look to space than pay their taxes and help fix the problems they contributed to on Earth. Fuck em.

Patty_Fleur posted...

But instead of helping people though?

It is in addition to
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I'm mad jealous

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People can spend money on anything they please

sabrestorm posted...

People can spend money on anything they please

oh really? fuck yeah!
*goes and buys a bunch of gummy bears*

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sabrestorm posted...

People can spend money on anything they please

exactly idc

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Sounds about as annoyed as when the millionaire fuckers started driving cars.

They're putting money back into the economy instead of hoarding it, how is that bad?

Anyone else annoyed that rich people are using those new Airplane things to travel now while we're still stuck using the train? Like what fucking assholes.

not really, no

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This is hopefully just the beginning of one day expanding across the solar system. They are just celebrating.

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Some people mastered narcissism. They don't give a shit. Or they'll convince themselves what they do is for everyone in the end and purposely avoid thinking pass the surface level of that. You don't have to tune into people suffering and they just don't.

Or apathetic. Which I think I suffer from. Unless its right there in my face I dont care about it. I'll help out people literally right in front of me.

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Maybe they'll decide to stay there and leave Earth the fuck alone

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Not especially.

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Patty_Fleur posted...

But instead of helping people though?

They're not mutually exclusive. They can have separate projects or foundations focused on supporting their communities. Plus, space exploration will drive innovation which will have a legitimate trickle down effect on the regular populace. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain from these guys investing in space exploration.

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We can say this for anyone going into space. NASA spends insane amounts of money that could be used to help Americans here on earth

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Ludwig Von 2 posted...

We can say this for anyone going into space. NASA spends insane amounts of money that could be used to help Americans here on earth

Except that NASA and real astronomers discover cool shit

This is just a pissing contest between rich guys

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I just wish the news didn't go on and on about it so much. I couldn't care less if some rich asshole beats another rich asshole to space by a few days.

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cuh posted...

They know something we dont. Humanity on Earth is ending within 20 years.

Hopefully they're working on ways to survive the rest of their lives in zero gravity being bombarded by solar and cosmic radiation.

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Space is one of the most important things that humanity is investing in. Eventually we will want to find new planets to colonize. Earth's resources are finite. It doesn't matter how much we try to be sustainable, eventually we're going to run out of resources. Future generations are going to thank us for starting now rather than later.

mooreandrew58 posted...

Or apathetic. Which I think I suffer from. Unless its right there in my face I dont care about it. I'll help out people literally right in front of me.

I think we're all guilty of that to some level. But a lot of us are in the position of the defeated and not the ones who lucked up along with their very respectable drive and determination. What I mean by that is plenty have their drive and determination but never hit the jackpot. Im not trying to take away that a whole lot of work and smarts went into it. It's just the difference between that luck hitting and not shouldn't have such lopsided results. Especially when the billionaires do everything in their power to make sure your luck doesn't interfere with them making as much money possible off their own lucky break decades ago. They will try to crush anybody who is trying to come up the same way they did if they can. Once you get up there you seem to get so detached from the people who would of once been your respected peers. And thanks to how capitalistic our country is, people actually respect this.

Now, bring on the one line responses like "Check this guy out lol".

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g980 posted...

Nope

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They're meeting with aliens.

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archedsoul posted...

They're meeting with aliens.

Could be true, if Oumuamua really isn't just a rock.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2021/02/11/harvard-astronomer-views-interstellar-interloper-as-humanitys-wake-up-call/

You wouldn't send the world's politicians up, because it's still too dangerous for us to travel in space that way. But subsidizing some companies and having their public figureheads go up instead, on our behalf? I could see them doing that instead.

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I'm mostly just annoyed that the media gives so much celebration to some jackass billionaire's stupid vanity project.

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Crescente posted...

Space is one of the most important things that humanity is investing in. Eventually we will want to find new planets to colonize. Earth's resources are finite. It doesn't matter how much we try to be sustainable, eventually we're going to run out of resources. Future generations are going to thank us for starting now rather than later.

Its already too late

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Mearcstapa posted...

I'm mostly just annoyed that the media gives so much celebration to some jackass billionaire's stupid vanity project.

Think about what kind of future it opens up for the species in its entirety if the space race begins for real and we start automating resource extraction/assembly out of rocks flying by and other planets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8XvQNt26KI

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I'm sure the people mad about it donate a percentage of their pay or time to local charities that need support far more than they need you to have a new smartphone or PS5. /s

They're doing what just about everyone else does: thinking about themselves and what they want, just on a grander scale.

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Goatsensation posted...

oh really? fuck yeah!
*goes and buys a bunch of gummy bears*

Why not worms?

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