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Anonymous at Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:17:11 UTC No. 16150509
>The New Horizons project cost $780.6 million
Why are we not launching these things every year?
🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:23:27 UTC No. 16150514
holy shit you sent almost 100 billions as "aid"?
Anonymous at Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:25:39 UTC No. 16150516
Anonymous at Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:26:19 UTC No. 16150626
>>16150509
Because they cost $780.6 million?
Anonymous at Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:27:40 UTC No. 16150632
>>16150509
Because they're worthless vanity projects with no real value. Every penny spent on sending a probe to the ass end of nowhere is a penny not spent on actually getting Humans into space or industrializing space in general. I love Pluto, favorite planet, but it'll still be there in 100 years, 1000 years, and 1 million years. Save something for future generations, don't just spam easy projects and then leave the next generation holding the bag.
Anonymous at Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:42:08 UTC No. 16150669
>>16150509
Because we need to spend it on niggers and "private" medical care.
Did you know the US government spends more on healthcare than any other government on earth?
Yet we pretend US healthcare is "privatized", and blame capitalism for it's faults.
Anonymous at Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:43:10 UTC No. 16150671
>>16150632
I agree, but that money would be even better spent not being taxed at all. People know how to spend their money best.
Anonymous at Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:44:11 UTC No. 16150674
>>16150671
Unfortunately there is a national interest in out-competing foreign rivals in space.
Anonymous at Sun, 28 Apr 2024 23:08:58 UTC No. 16150723
>>16150626
>NASA has spent $11.8 billion since it began developing SLS in 2011
That's ~15 New Horizons, 15 KBO's and/or interstellar space probes we could've had flying right this moment
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:20:57 UTC No. 16150863
>>16150723
Also another 10 billion dollar for that shitty space telescope.
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:47:53 UTC No. 16150931
>>16150509
Because Zelenskyy needs another luxury yacht.
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:59:34 UTC No. 16150955
>>16150632
>space probes that do real science and increase our understanding of the universe
>economic development and colonization of space that will advance the human race
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 01:37:11 UTC No. 16151002
>>16150863
I'd rather have 10 billion spent over a decade for a telescope than 500 billion given to Israeli niggers every single year
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 01:50:39 UTC No. 16151021
>>16150509
Because Ukraine needs another $80 billion so it can hold on for another few months while its population gets drained and its infrastructure devastated.
Then once Ukraine is utterly ruined we can send all our excess 3rd world refugees there instead, ensuring its ethnic extinction. Then the German corporations can tap into the second largest natural gas reserves in Europe and get a much cheaper and more reliable source of energy than Russia ever provided.
Its a much better use of money. Don't you understand?
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:30:39 UTC No. 16151664
>>16150509
Each are tailor made to the specific mission, and there is little point in repeating teh experiment before we have examined and analysed all the data we already got.
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:36:59 UTC No. 16151673
>>16150509
Yeah I would at least expect a Uranus and Neptune orbiter missions between 2000-2030 from stupid nasa
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:48:02 UTC No. 16151688
>>16150509
they're too busy huilding a Mars gulag in secret, for 4channers and other free-speechers
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:40:12 UTC No. 16151759
>>16150509
No point launching things to non-planets. New Horizons was the pet project of the deranged Alan Stern.
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:06:42 UTC No. 16151790
>>16150509
Not needed anymore James Webb Telescope gives us much sharper images
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:45:58 UTC No. 16151989
>>16151790
New Horizon, at its closest approach, has a resolution of about 250-280 feet (77-85 meters) per pixel.
The JWST has a resolution of 0.1 arcseconds (4.85x10^7 radians) per pixel.
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about
The average distance from Earth to Pluto is 3.24 billion miles (5.22 trillion meters). At that distance, 0.1 arcsecond would offer a resolution of 2500 km per pixel, which is less than the diameter of Pluto, which is 2300 km across.
Images of Pluto
New Horizons: ~30,000 pixels across
JWST: < 1 pixel across
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:47:20 UTC No. 16151990
>>16150509
I'll do you one better, why was the likes of Kepler not put into mass production?
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:04:35 UTC No. 16152006
>>16150509
Because the Jews in Washington are too busy spending our money on Israel and ukraine
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:29:01 UTC No. 16152033
>>16151989
you should fuck off to reddit
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:21:37 UTC No. 16152082
>>16150632
>I love Pluto, favorite planet
Dwarf planet* :)
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 22:11:35 UTC No. 16152285
>>16150516
>trying to have a serious discussion about an "oldspace" probe in a den of Muskrats in a perpetual SpaceX circle jerk
ftfy
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 22:13:31 UTC No. 16152287
>>16152285
>i hate /sci/
so go somewhere else
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 22:21:42 UTC No. 16152296
>>16150955
But you can do both, the problem is priorities. If you try to focus on both at the same time, the important but expensive missions will be cut in favor of the worthless but cheap missions - like space probes. The reason we've never been to the Moon for the past few decades is because NASA is scared to death of an expensive failure but can spam probes to Mars even if a third of them crash or we lose contact. And while Mars probes are cool, especially the recent one with the helicopter, it's not actually moving us forward. The space program of the entire planet has been treading water since the 70's.
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 22:21:52 UTC No. 16152297
>>16152287
No, I hate Elon Musk and his mom's dildo rocket to nowhere. Big difference.
Anonymous at Mon, 29 Apr 2024 22:27:01 UTC No. 16152312
>>16152296
>The space program of the entire planet has been treading water since the 70's.
Retard take. It's not "treading water", it's sending the candidate best qualified for the mission...in this case, a robot that can snooze for years in a subzero vacuum and wake up long enough to accumulate years of new findings in only a day or two of flyby before zooming off into the void forever.
Your fantasy of human "space conquest" is a corny sci-fi meme from the 1950s.
Anonymous at Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:49:37 UTC No. 16152497
>>16152296
I don't give a fuck about the moon. I wanna see more Kuiper Belt objects.
Anonymous at Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:57:54 UTC No. 16152519
>>16152285
Oldspace refers to launch providers, not probes.
Anonymous at Tue, 30 Apr 2024 01:56:54 UTC No. 16152564
Anonymous at Tue, 30 Apr 2024 01:59:16 UTC No. 16152565
>>16152312
Cope. Probes do jack shit.
>new findings
Have zero utility if we never go there. You might as well jack off to "discoveries" in video games, there is no practical value.
Anonymous at Tue, 30 Apr 2024 02:13:01 UTC No. 16152575
>>16152287
/sci/ isn't Elon Musk and Tesla
Anonymous at Tue, 30 Apr 2024 02:17:35 UTC No. 16152580
>>16152575
wyd if musk buys 4chan
Anonymous at Tue, 30 Apr 2024 03:01:49 UTC No. 16152611
>>16152033
No, you should fuck off to middle school and learn to math.
Anonymous at Tue, 30 Apr 2024 03:22:31 UTC No. 16152627
>>16152033
imagine being this dumb