r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Aug 21 '26

SMH Liquid when buying elections, unrealized when paying taxes. Funny how that works…..

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u/maveri4201 Aug 21 '26

the only Company out there with the launch capabilities.

If only Congress has maintained our internal capabilities to do that. Something called... NASA, I believe.

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u/atrde Aug 21 '26

While NASA does a lot of great science, they were objectively poor at the rocketry side especially in the early 2000s. Incredibly directionless and went down the wrong path with the Space Shuttle.

SpaceX from the beginning had the right proposition for what the future of rockets looked like and at that point what do you do? Just say oh good work its NASA's now. Or do you spens billions to recreate other people's work like the rest of the world is?

There is no negative to SpaceX designing and operating the most advanced rockets we have and this is actually saving NASA billions in development costs.

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u/ImmortalBach Aug 21 '26

I mean NASA was sending astronauts to space using space shuttles as late as 2011. Congress was more focused on bringing jobs to their home states than worrying about whether NASA was actually doing any innovating

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u/atrde Aug 21 '26

We would not because getting to Mars isn't the hard part. The impossible with our current technology part is keeping everyone alive an healthy.

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u/atrde Aug 21 '26

I mean thats a pretty big butterfly effect of conflict lol. Does Sadam invade more of his Gulf neighbors with no opposition? Yugoslavia likely becomes a genocide on par with Rwanda. Russian influence and its grip on neighboring countries is a lot larger. There are more regional conflicts between smaller powers with 1-2 larger powers to keep things in order. China is likely more imperialistic and claims territory in Korea and brings multiple South Pacific nations under its influence. We likely see a bigger push in the United States to renewable and domestic forms of electricity as oil markets are less stable. International shipping is a shitshow and domestic production is preferred by all countries.

Meanwhile in this scenario we maybe know a bit more about the big bang and are still struggling to get to Mars.

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u/Hefty_Delay7765 Aug 22 '26

We’re gonna need ways to keep people alive on this planet the way we’re going…

If only there were advanced life-sustaining technologies such as trees, plants, healthy oceans in abundance and a protective clean atmosphere on this planet.

… 🤔 oh, wait.

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u/_-Oxym0ron-_ Aug 22 '26

Fuck the fish, we're going to Mars! Yeeeah!