hell, nano-technology to cure cancer was promised to us 5 years ago

You'd have to remake the bone structure

i read an article that maybe a good argument for defunding NASA in favor of the private sector.

Yes

Space X has accomplished incredible things

the issue with private sector is that it needs to be profitable

And until we can mine asteroids etc, theres not much profit in it 😦

and the whole point is because space projects take forever, and are expensive. so good luck getting and keeping them funded by like the 2-3 different administrations.

like Bush approved Constellation, then Obama canned it

FFS the ISRO is given to the privafe sector in India

funny how the democrats were anti-science 😄

good guy obama said "fuck that" to going back to the moon

They sent a satellite to mars at less than 300 million dollars

and apparently "completing" the ISS (the ISS has a complete state? tf?)

and now Trump wants to build Space Marines

I for one welcome the Adeptus Astartes

I personally don't see the point of going back to the moon

Moonbase :^)

you know, this really doesn't make sense. why are the republicans funding space flight and the dems not? tf? man, i should have stopped leaning left longer ago

A rover would do anything we could, better

wait, i know why

military

maybe we should move more space stuff under the military to get it funded

The right supports space domination?

By the US hegemony?

the moon was a failed project 😦 they should've thought long term

Next to the american flag, the flag of Russia or China with a penis on it,

Force them to get a space program and remove the dick-flag 😄

just play it off as "useful military RnD"

Cos I'm on board

and play a large game of capture the flag on the moon

I'd prefer US on top than Russia or China

😏

don't we all

Mostly cos it's not much of a choice

Russia will dominate the world, China will also do the sane

Russia won't be on top anyway

America will atleast not do that

and america will just rule the world

China maybe

much better

They'll just let people be

America already just rules the world

Nah

true

They're very dependent on international trade

mostly because everyone goes "... better you than china and russia"

nah, America lets people be, if they're on top

its the american way

"We don't care what happens to us, but YOU others don't get to enjoy it"

They don't rule the world, they're just the most powerful

And the most tolerant dominant power

So far, atleast

I don't want Putin on top

Or Xi jinping

i mean the cold war was literally a dick-wagging contest

"You got nukes? well we'll have MORE nukes"

"You got a space program? well, we'll land on the moon!"

"You start influencing the middle east? well, we'll start funding dictators militarily"

how do we not control the world if all we have to say is "we'll just pull out our military strength in the area and leave you to your neighbors" to get what we want

Well, it's mostly just the EU

The west is not the world

true, just half of it. the other half being under the influence of china and russia

i mean, Americas motto might aswell be "We shall not Envy"

@Grenade123lol what

who probably say the same thing... well, more the reverse actually

Russia controls what, Ukraine?

"well, you could do what we want.... or we just invade"

China has the empty wasteland of Tibet

Russia doesn't have the economy to invade, russia only has nukes to destroy

and they are very proud of that empty wasteland

Yep lol

Tibet? you mean China? 😛

the chineese word for Tibet is china btw

The indian army could fuck em over at any point

don't underestimate a country without an economy. remember what happened with Germany.

well

They tried to encroach indian borders

Didn't work so well

get everyone focused in one direction can fix things in a hurry

I'd agree with you grenade, but you need the neighboring countries to be rich,

So you can just take their wealth

Germany had the capacity, they were just in a slump

currently, everything around EU is poor cuz the EU is failing 😄

Russia has some deep issues preventing it from growing

yeah, like russian winters to start

lmao

I feel China's population will revolt soon

Same

China civil war?

or well

Civil Wal? 😉

There's only a certain extent until the public get tires of not having free will

Social media is undermining the state

I've heard bookstores popping up

Giving away Orwell books for free

People have been openly criticizing the government

Which have all been banned

In newspapers even

idk, i think China's population has a habit of just ignoring their government to start with, just staying clear of it enough so they are not on any corrupt politicians radar

They do

They've ignored it cos it didn't intrude so far

But eventually it gets too restrictive

Chinese people don't give a shit about the govt

Until now

exactly, and i'm sure their government pulls back every time they get bit.

but we'll see

Now, they effectively have a dictator

didn't China ban bot systems that refused to promote communism? 😛

Who is trying to censor speech