I knew The Discourse on this would be toxic and awful and so much of this thread has proved it.
My position is I would rather pay for 50 years of Artemis missions that never leave the ground than spend one more fucking dollar attempting to slow the descent of the American empire, or that of its colonies.
This was inspiring and amazing to watch. Actual history being made. Competence displayed proudly. No culture war bullshit. No insipid speeches by dullards about REAL AMERICA. Just us doing something because we can, and with plans to do even more.
Come on man be honest. There were multiple, massive delays with the program related to literally every aspect. You're not engaging seriously.
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Can you please stop crossing into personal attack and stop breaking the site guidelines generally? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366370 (March 2026)
If you keep this up, we're going to have to ban your account. I don't want to ban you, so it would be good if you'd fix this.
> novel path
Reusing Apollo-style stack, reusing Shuttle engines, reusing Shuttle-style SRBs. Novel?
I knew The Discourse on this would be toxic and awful and so much of this thread has proved it.
My position is I would rather pay for 50 years of Artemis missions that never leave the ground than spend one more fucking dollar attempting to slow the descent of the American empire, or that of its colonies.
This was inspiring and amazing to watch. Actual history being made. Competence displayed proudly. No culture war bullshit. No insipid speeches by dullards about REAL AMERICA. Just us doing something because we can, and with plans to do even more.