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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Counterpoint: Neptune is neat but there are much more interesting things to study in the solar system than a gas giant. A lander on Titan would drive more science than a new photo of the cloud tops of Neptune.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Why not both? For the cost of one aircraft carrier, we could send probes to every planet.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Woah there cowboy,

We're still closer to rival monkey tribes hurling our shit at one another as it exits our anuses than we are some benevolent civilization with noble pursuits like knowledge.

Don't worry, a few more pointless world wars and population decimations born out of glorified sociopathy, and our species might actually develop admirable priorities beyond tribal resource hoarding from the ashes.

When humans are no longer interested in keeping up with some Kardashian descendant, perhaps we will have stumbled into an age of reason. Seems like as good an indicator as any.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Don't worry, a few more pointless world wars and population decimations born out of glorified sociopathy, and our species might actually develop admirable priorities beyond tribal resource hoarding from the ashes.

Tbf, even in the Star Trek timeline earth had to go through WWIII nuclear devastation that nearly wiped out all life on earth to even take the first steps on that track

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

NASA sets program budgets in collaboration with the scientific community.

How do you propose we get society to stop spending money on the military?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Deep fry the generals in avocado oil

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Avocado oil? In this economy? Ok, Millennial.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

if we all save up one avocado toast a week, we can deep fry a general a day!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

By force.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I’ve been absolutely fascinated with Titan ever since Huygens. It’s low key my best bet for “nearest extraterrestrial life”. I can’t wait for Dragonfly to land a decade from now!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(Titan_space_probe)