/sci/ - Science & Math

holy shit you sent almost 100 billions as "aid"?

>>>/sci/sfg

>>16150509
Because they cost $780.6 million?

>>16150509
Because they're worthless vanity projects with no real value. Every penny spent on sending a probe to the ass end of nowhere is a penny not spent on actually getting Humans into space or industrializing space in general. I love Pluto, favorite planet, but it'll still be there in 100 years, 1000 years, and 1 million years. Save something for future generations, don't just spam easy projects and then leave the next generation holding the bag.

>>16150509
Because we need to spend it on niggers and "private" medical care.
Did you know the US government spends more on healthcare than any other government on earth?
Yet we pretend US healthcare is "privatized", and blame capitalism for it's faults.

>>16150632
I agree, but that money would be even better spent not being taxed at all. People know how to spend their money best.

>>16150671
Unfortunately there is a national interest in out-competing foreign rivals in space.

>>16150626
>NASA has spent $11.8 billion since it began developing SLS in 2011
That's ~15 New Horizons, 15 KBO's and/or interstellar space probes we could've had flying right this moment

>>16150723
Also another 10 billion dollar for that shitty space telescope.

>>16150509
Because Zelenskyy needs another luxury yacht.

>>16150632
>space probes that do real science and increase our understanding of the universe
>economic development and colonization of space that will advance the human race

>>16150863
I'd rather have 10 billion spent over a decade for a telescope than 500 billion given to Israeli niggers every single year

>>16150509
Because Ukraine needs another $80 billion so it can hold on for another few months while its population gets drained and its infrastructure devastated.
Then once Ukraine is utterly ruined we can send all our excess 3rd world refugees there instead, ensuring its ethnic extinction. Then the German corporations can tap into the second largest natural gas reserves in Europe and get a much cheaper and more reliable source of energy than Russia ever provided.
Its a much better use of money. Don't you understand?

>>16150509
Each are tailor made to the specific mission, and there is little point in repeating teh experiment before we have examined and analysed all the data we already got.

>>16150509
Yeah I would at least expect a Uranus and Neptune orbiter missions between 2000-2030 from stupid nasa

>>16150509
they're too busy huilding a Mars gulag in secret, for 4channers and other free-speechers

>>16150509
No point launching things to non-planets. New Horizons was the pet project of the deranged Alan Stern.

>>16150509
Not needed anymore James Webb Telescope gives us much sharper images

>>16151790
New Horizon, at its closest approach, has a resolution of about 250-280 feet (77-85 meters) per pixel.

The JWST has a resolution of 0.1 arcseconds (4.85x10^7 radians) per pixel.

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/facts.html

The average distance from Earth to Pluto is 3.24 billion miles (5.22 trillion meters). At that distance, 0.1 arcsecond would offer a resolution of 2500 km per pixel, which is less than the diameter of Pluto, which is 2300 km across.

Images of Pluto
New Horizons: ~30,000 pixels across
JWST: < 1 pixel across

>>16150509
I'll do you one better, why was the likes of Kepler not put into mass production?

>>16150509
Because the Jews in Washington are too busy spending our money on Israel and ukraine

>>16151989
you should fuck off to reddit

>>16150632
>I love Pluto, favorite planet
Dwarf planet* :)

>>16150516
>trying to have a serious discussion about an "oldspace" probe in a den of Muskrats in a perpetual SpaceX circle jerk
ftfy

>>16152285
>i hate /sci/
so go somewhere else

>>16150955
But you can do both, the problem is priorities. If you try to focus on both at the same time, the important but expensive missions will be cut in favor of the worthless but cheap missions - like space probes. The reason we've never been to the Moon for the past few decades is because NASA is scared to death of an expensive failure but can spam probes to Mars even if a third of them crash or we lose contact. And while Mars probes are cool, especially the recent one with the helicopter, it's not actually moving us forward. The space program of the entire planet has been treading water since the 70's.

>>16152287
No, I hate Elon Musk and his mom's dildo rocket to nowhere. Big difference.

>>16152296
>The space program of the entire planet has been treading water since the 70's.
Retard take. It's not "treading water", it's sending the candidate best qualified for the mission...in this case, a robot that can snooze for years in a subzero vacuum and wake up long enough to accumulate years of new findings in only a day or two of flyby before zooming off into the void forever.

Your fantasy of human "space conquest" is a corny sci-fi meme from the 1950s.

>>16152296
I don't give a fuck about the moon. I wanna see more Kuiper Belt objects.

>>16152285
Oldspace refers to launch providers, not probes.

>>16150931

>>16152312
Cope. Probes do jack shit.
>new findings
Have zero utility if we never go there. You might as well jack off to "discoveries" in video games, there is no practical value.

>>16152287
/sci/ isn't Elon Musk and Tesla

>>16152575
wyd if musk buys 4chan

>>16152033
No, you should fuck off to middle school and learn to math.

>>16152033
imagine being this dumb