• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    6 hours ago

    No argument there, but the key take away was about thanking Bezos for the opportunity. Maybe Blue Origin alone is a small fraction of global emissions, but Bezos’ corporate empire is responsible for much more than that.

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      5 hours ago

      I wasn’t even referencing Blue Origin there, I was referencing ALL rocket launches. BO is a very tiny sliver, they hardly launch shit because all they do is a handful of tourism flights that don’t even go to orbit. Actually, BO is the worst of the bunch currently because their launches still don’t actually have a use other than tourism.

      At least SpaceX and ULA launches send satellites to orbit, resupply payloads, and crew to the ISS. Starship is working towards modern Moon and Mars missions, and while SLS is a boondogle created by legacy Space companies and Congress, at least it has a generally good goal. BO is still just making the engines ULA now uses, and futzing around with their first orbital rocket with mixed results.

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        5 hours ago

        That’s not really the point I was trying to make, but thanks for the somewhat adjacent info, I guess?

        Still doesn’t change the fact that Bezos’ companies are a major contributor to the destruction of the planet and its environment