NASA is foolishly wasting money on returning human pilots to moon orbit, basically redoing what we could do in 1962. They no longer build their own technology. They’re using Microsoft Surface laptops, made in China and designed primarily to boost Sam Altman’s Share Value to the moon. The Surface laptops lost contact, though the other equipment continued working.
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Reid Wiseman, the mission commander, reported issues accessing email on his computer. He asked NASA Mission Control for tech support during a livestream of the interaction. “I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working. If you want to remote in and check Optimus and those two Outlooks, that would be awesome,” Wiseman said on the livestream.
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Though I’m a total nerd, I wasn’t interested in the first space program and I’m not interested in this one either. We lost to Sputnik and then learned backwards as fucking usual. The alleged “benefits” and “spinoffs” are fake. All of those things were developing fast before we started the space program.
From Arthur Clarke to Sagan to deGrasse, the loudest voices for “science” have always focused on ASTRONOMY. The media concentrate heavily on every new failure from NASA, always treating it as a success and reminding us of the delusional spinoffs.
Astronomy is the least useful branch of ‘hard’ science by a long long long long long moon shot. Astronomy has given us NOTHING of value.
Since the age of Edison, ALL the action and advancement has been in MATERIALS. The inventive part of electronics was complete in 1906 with the triode tube. Miniaturization was moving fast in the 1940s. The inventive part of automobiles was done in 1912 with the electric starter. All necessary inventions were in place by those dates. Everything since then has been MATERIALS and manufacturing methods.
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Meanwhile, China is ruled by real engineers who solve earthly problems with materials, not software. China concentrates on improving its OWN infrastructure, not bombing other countries down to bedrock to satisfy Israel.
China has always relied on rivers for part of its traffic. When they built hydro dams to increase their CLEAN RELIABLE ENERGY, those rivers lost barge traffic. A lock or canal can detour around a low dam, but huge hydro dams are too tall for locks. Our solution is to BOMB the dam for Gaia, since BOMBING is the only thing we can do. China’s solution is to BUILD giant freight elevators.
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