Foundational Lies
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>the only reason the US had to land on the moon was one-upping the USSR. When the USSR fell, there was no real reason to keep on burning money
They successfully one-upped the USSR, then kept burning money. The USSR dissolved, and they kept burning money. To this day, NASA is still operating and burning money, so that explanation doesn't add up. What *does* add up is that they faked it in '69 and have been slowly trying to catch up IRL since then (with very poor results I might add).
Further, the entire concept of "no reason to keep going to the moon" is preposterous. What does that even mean? You, reading this right now, can you honestly tell me that if you were the director of NASA in 1972, with the technology to put men on the moon, that you couldn't figure out a single fucking reason to continue developing the technology? Be honest with yourself.
I've also heard that "the public lost interest" which is equally preposterous. Space travel is a mainstay of science fiction. Little boys dreaming of traveling the stars has been a cliche for generations. You're telling me if you had an astronaut livestreaming a walk on the moon, people would just roll their eyes and switch to their favorite twitch streamer sitting on their ass playing Hearthstone? "Lost interest" my ass, I feel like that's blatant gaslighting.
Tell me, what's the point of companies like Space X and Blue Origin? If attempting to make space flights commercially viable and profitable is a reasonably pursuable idea in 2024, wouldn't the same have been true **50 years ago** back when NASA supposedly had that shit down to a science?
In 2023, several dozens of millionaires lined up to pay $100,000+ to hop into a tiny makeshift janky submarine to go see the bottom of the ocean, 5 at a time. And that makes total sense to you. But take those same wealthy folks and offer them a flight into space and you want me to believe they'd be like
> Oi naah mate! I’m good, innit? Rather save me dosh for a proper knees-up bruv
Bottom line is you're asking me to believe that the USA would have had a 50 year head start on commercializing space flight but said "nah fuck it let's save a little money instead" while not actually saving much money this whole time.
In closing, I'll quote some numbers from google's top results (which is absolutely censored and highly curated to all shit I'll admit, but is still useful to prove when "mainstream" claims contradict themselves):
* "The Apollo 17 mission, which took place in December 1972, had an estimated cost of around $450 million at the time. Adjusted for inflation, that would be roughly equivalent to about $2.5 billion today."
* "NASA's budget for financial year (FY) 2020 is $22.6 billion".
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>people in 40 years will be asking if Personal Computers were ever real because no one will be able to build one
A better analogy would be that people in 80 years will be asking if the holocaust actually happened because upon further inspection some of the evidence makes no fucking sense and boy oh boy wouldn't you know it...👀👀👀