/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14651530
dragged back into the mud

>>12380890
Remember that the Apollo program was going on at the same time as the Civil Rights Movement. There were a lot of people in the African American community who genuinely believed the entire space program was a waste of money. And to be fair, a lot of Americans felt the same way. We like to look back on the Space Race with rose-tinted glasses imagining everyone was watching events unfold with bated breath and barely-contained excitement, but the reality is that many Americans thought it was a wasteful endeavor. Oh everyone and there mother turned out for the Apollo 11 mission, everyone huddled around televisions, all the papers published stories cataloging every step of the journey, etc... but the moment it was over most of them went back to not giving a shit about space. The headline of the New York Times just one week after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the surface of the Moon was, "Blacks and Apollo; most couldn't care less". Within a month of the first landing the NYT and other papers like the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Post were filled with articles ranting about the wastefulness of the space program and how selfish White people were wasting billions on space exploration while seemingly ignoring racial, social, and economic justice issues in America. The media response to the Apollo 12 landing four months later was basically "ugh, this again?", and by the time Apollo 13 rolled around the following April (the third manned mission to another celestial body in a year) NASA basically cancelled all of the scheduled broadcasts of the mission because none of the news networks thought the story was worth covering (until the accident happened).

That's my big concern about the space program going forward. It seems like so much of the public is obsessed with demanding increases in welfare, demanding basic income, demanding 'free' healthcare, etc. I'm worried the same people who turned on NASA in the 60s and 70s will do so again today.

>>12351017
You mean women.

>>11898595
The first world will grow the third world until it strangles us and nothing but the third world is left.

The crabs will never allow us to leave this bucket ever again. Hanging out on the rim is the most we can expect and even that will go away soon.

HOL UP HOL UP HOL UPPPPPPPPPP

>>11717628
Unlikely

>>10865635
Remember that NASA's current annual budget is only about 3% comparatively of what the United States gives annually to it's social programs. So next time when someone says that NASA's budget should be redistributed to "feed the poor" ask them if 3% would actually help "the poor" compared to putting thousands of highly skilled people out of work and crippling US space interests. Interests such as science, GPS, communications, weather tracking, maritime trade monitoring, etc. Space isn't just some place nerds obsess over, and it is a place where legitimate interests for the country rest in.

>>10807730
>"There's enough problems here on Earth. We should be focusing on solving them rather than leaving them. The money for spaceflight should be redistributed to feed the poor. There's not even anything useful in space."
Or something to that effect.

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>>10578823
Well OBVIOUSLY this means that we should take away NASA's excessive budget of $20 Billion and use it for welfare. It'll definitely help with the meager socal programs budget of over half a trillion dollars.

>>10132854
Gib gibs we need money fo dem programz