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Astronomer Reveals The Dangers of SpaceX's Polaris Dawn Mission (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just because it's dangerous and not always fun doesn't make it a "mission". Exactly like when some rich schmuck pays 150k to climb Everest.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't disagree, just looking at it from the Lord Farquaad point of view, "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make". I think space exploration is good and if we have to burn a few billionaires to get there, I am sanguine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I think we could learn so much if this ends in a total wipe out of some billionaires.... Let's hope for the best for science, and then do some replication studies with more billionaires to be sure all variables stay the same