Do We Still Have the Right Stuff? - America is on the verge of a new space age—if apathy doesn’t kill it.

City Journal ^ | Autumn 2023 | Corbin K. Barthold

[Jotmo]

“Given the median rent is $1,978 and used car payment is $528, that leaves precisely $894 for everything else — food, utilities, medical insurance and premiums, clothes, car repairs, sick kids, and that once a year dinner out at McDonald’s.”

You have to remember effectively all households are dual income when looking at those numbers. Of course costs go up, (two car payments, child care, ect.) but they don’t necessarily double.

That’s generally how everyone “gets by” now days.

In the past, one income was more than enough to achieve the same outcome. But when we doubled the size of the labor force, (women entering en masse), we cut the cost of labor in half.

So women have to work for others who don’t care about them like a husband does, so they can leave their children with someone else who doesn’t love them like their mother does, and we then see the inevitable destruction of the family, and our culture.

But hey, that’s just a small price to pay so the chicks get to be “strong independent bad ass girl bosses” now...right?

[Nateman]

...political commentary has been startlingly negative...

No big surprise. Liberal whining is what killed the Apollo program. NASA had a lot more moon landings planned.

There are some craters on the Moon which never get any sunlight. As a result over millions of years ice has been collecting. This is likely the most important real estate in the Solar System. Whatever country gets control of that gets control of cheap access to the rest of space.

[Bon of Babble]

Well, most important of all will be the race and gender (trans encouraged to apply) of the astronauts.

NO White Men Need Apply...

[Lurker]

“ As the rockets climb toward the heavens, in fact, much of the media and political commentary has been startlingly negative. Oligarchs and their toys! What about world hunger? We need a wealth tax. What about climate change? We need a wealth tax. What about universal health care? Time for a wealth tax!”

“ Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.” Robert Heinlein

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[G Larry]

I spent a 45 year career in aerospace.

The U.S. is NOT sending men to Mars.

Cost prohibitive with today's bureaucracy and budget priorities.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "...we cut the cost of labor in half." And "...just a small price to pay..."

That's it in a nutshell. The ideologues of the "tear down Western civilization" stance are ACTUALLY acting against labor and against women and the family.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty."

A fine observation. Gosh, how's LBJ's "war on poverty" doing? And how long has that "war" been given to prove itself and 'win?'

[Boogieman]

“The space industry’s second Golden Age has not captured the public imagination.”

Maybe because the first Golden Age already taught us that there is nothing much worth chasing out there. Earth is the only planet we are going to be able to live on, there are no aliens, and even if we find an asteroid made 100% of gold, it probably will not be economically viable to try to mine it.

[38special]

Not to mention it would be a one-way trip

[nhbob1]

We’ll see how that works out with their 1+1 = 3 math.

[SunkenCiv]

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• SpaceX scrubs Falcon Heavy's X-37B space plane launch due to ground issue [12/12/2023]
• Chinese lander detects giant polygons buried beneath Mars [12/12/2023]

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• Oregon Police Made One of the Biggest Fentanyl Busts in State History Then Released the Ringleader [12/12/2023]

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• Tesla unveils Optimus Gen 2: its next generation humanoid robot [12/12/2023]
• Brain tissue on a chip achieves voice recognition [12/12/2023]
• MIKO, the AI robot, teaches kids through conversation: 'Very personalized experience' [12/11/2023]

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• Opinion: Climate justice in WA is not served by rejecting natural gas [12/12/2023]
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• Hasbro Eliminating Close to 20 Percent of Workforce as Biden Economy Hammers Toy Sales [12/12/2023]
• Google Loses Antitrust Case Brought by Epic Games [12/12/2023]

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• Be wary before scanning QR codes [12/12/2023]

[GOPJ]

WOKE NASA kind of killed the joy...