These aren’t dirty dishes. I’m tired of this system. I’m tired of the people running it. I’m tired of having the political beliefs leave other people the fuck alone, and that’s a hard concept for other people to follow. I’m just tired, and I don’t need people to tell me what I already know. But thanks for checking in.

Seems like every vote is the most important vote of my life. I’m getting tired of it.

I’m not seeing how that’s not calling them stupid. Not really out of context at all actually.

Well, I don’t live in California. So unless he runs for president, I won’t get to help choose who the nominee is. And I’ll vote for who I want to win in the primary, but I’m not gonna throw away my vote during the general bcz he’s a bad candidate bcz.whoever the Republicans nominate will be a straight up fascist.

But it’s not. You can’t eat money, you can’t bring back an uninhabitable planet once you destroy it for pieces of paper. The things that are important, aren’t the things we are focusing on because we are a stupid species that’s going to destroy ourselves. And it will be peak irony.

God, fuck this guy with a fucking pineapple. Why can’t we get candidates who aren’t pieces of shit?

I don’t often wish bad things to happen to people. But if this guy crocked tomorrow, I wouldn’t be upset.

Government, meet the consequences of you own actions. Happy to introduce you.

I will never understand the thought behind weaponizing diseases. They kill indiscriminately, even you, the developer or the president who orders it’s release. Anybody who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.

I swear to all that is holy if there’s another pandemic I will have a bitch fit

Sadly, no. Not everything on the internet is original. I know, it’s tough to hear that. I was heart broken too.

Great use of our tax dollars. Definitely focusing on the important stuff.

Impeachment? This dude should be in an old folks home. He’s barely lucid, and they’ve been doing a Weekend at Bernies for 2 years with his barely there corpse.

If they weren’t complicit in his crimes, he’d have been removed from office a long time ago.

The Moon and Mars are not a distraction. It’s been a Nasa goal for a long time to go to Mars. Politics has stopped us from doing it for a very long time. We’re lucky we got to put probes around it and rovers on the ground.

There are so many reason we do these things as engineers. For me, it used to be about having all our marbles in one basket on Earth. But, as I get older, I find the science and engineering are just the better parts of humanity. There’s so much nasty stuff happening in the world out there

We launched The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope at the end of August, and I literally cried watching it separate from the rocket. 5 years of my life, and a president who tried to cancel the program, not once, not twice, but three times. All of the work we did at the end of last year under duress of the OMB crap, and NASA cutting 25% of the workforce, trying go defund Goddard.

So, yeah, this stuff isn’t just something I do for money, or the challenge. I do it bcz it’s my life, it’s what makes the bestof humanity, all of the knowledge and hope we have as a species.

Edit: To answer your actual question, the moon is a great jumping point to other parts of the solar system. Launching from the moon has so many benefits over the earth due to our gravity well being so large. As for why we’d do any of this at all. It’s a great place to test out living in space, and the technologies we need to do it. If we stay on this rock, we are dooming ourselves eventually. (Whether it’s climate change, or a cosmic event, or something else). Right or wrong, people want to go into space, and this is the best way to test out our ability to do that. All the politics aside, we have the technology to go to Mars now. The issue is logistics, and political will stopping us.

I’m just incredulous that you think BlueMaga is a real thing.

It’s actually impressive that every other comment or two of yours comment history has double digit downvotes.

Jesus christ, in a sane world we’d have removed this fuckhead long ago.

They are illegal, but laws are only worth the paper they’re written on if you’re willing to enforce them.

Definitely not, that’s literally got nothing to do with the article.