I love science, and space, put in 1000s hours in Kerbal Space Program. followed space news though all my life. but now? with all that’s going on. A genocide perpetrated by a country claiming it’s for me, the US has become a fascist hell hole, rights are eroding so fast… I genuinely don’t care about this anymore.
if it was a few years ago I would me following with exhalted breath. I would have taken time off work, and taken the kids off school to follow it, and play KSP emulating the mission. and watch space movies. and YouTube videos about the mission and spaceship… I was a massive space nerd.
Can’t care about one rocket on the moon when we are sending thousands of rollers to kill civilians
I feel this so much. I followed every NASA mission starting around 1965, with Gemini. I got a subscription to National Geographic because they had the best space pictures. I was an Apollo 11 fanboy, and cut articles out of the newspaper and put them in a scrapbook. I had models of the Saturn V and the Lunar Module. I was a hard core space kid.
But now it feels so empty. The entire world is a mess, and it’s probably going to get a LOT worse before it gets better, and I just don’t feel like cheering for my country anymore. I love the Olympics, but I couldn’t get into it this year. This was basically Apollo 8, with more complex computers (that didn’t work), and 1000x the budget. It’s hard to get excited about re-inventing the wheel, especially when everything else is so bad.
The wealthy (and the MAGA government is just an extension of the wealthy) would rather throw their money away on rockets, than spend an extra dime on taxes or higher wages. If not rockets, than AI, or some other cockamamie expensive solution in search of a non-existent problem. I just can’t stop thinking about what a waste of money all of this is, when America is such a shithole country.
somehow, I’m completely indifferent.
I love science, and space, put in 1000s hours in Kerbal Space Program. followed space news though all my life. but now? with all that’s going on. A genocide perpetrated by a country claiming it’s for me, the US has become a fascist hell hole, rights are eroding so fast… I genuinely don’t care about this anymore.
if it was a few years ago I would me following with exhalted breath. I would have taken time off work, and taken the kids off school to follow it, and play KSP emulating the mission. and watch space movies. and YouTube videos about the mission and spaceship… I was a massive space nerd.
Can’t care about one rocket on the moon when we are sending thousands of rollers to kill civilians
I feel this so much. I followed every NASA mission starting around 1965, with Gemini. I got a subscription to National Geographic because they had the best space pictures. I was an Apollo 11 fanboy, and cut articles out of the newspaper and put them in a scrapbook. I had models of the Saturn V and the Lunar Module. I was a hard core space kid.
But now it feels so empty. The entire world is a mess, and it’s probably going to get a LOT worse before it gets better, and I just don’t feel like cheering for my country anymore. I love the Olympics, but I couldn’t get into it this year. This was basically Apollo 8, with more complex computers (that didn’t work), and 1000x the budget. It’s hard to get excited about re-inventing the wheel, especially when everything else is so bad.
The wealthy (and the MAGA government is just an extension of the wealthy) would rather throw their money away on rockets, than spend an extra dime on taxes or higher wages. If not rockets, than AI, or some other cockamamie expensive solution in search of a non-existent problem. I just can’t stop thinking about what a waste of money all of this is, when America is such a shithole country.
Epstein’s on the Moon, whee.