keccers
@keccers.eth
Do you guys think public sentiment is such that people feel the risk of dying is far less than the risk of not going to Mars? Does a majority of society feel further outer space exploration is worth dying for
11 replies
0 recast
25 reactions
jd 🌺
@jdl
why do we need a majority
1 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
keccers
@keccers.eth
Helpful if you want government to pay
1 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
jd 🌺
@jdl
perhaps. history would quibble with that being necessary
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
keccers
@keccers.eth
We got the moon using billions of dollars of taxpayer money and had majority sentiment shifted it wouldn’t have gotten done
1 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
jd 🌺
@jdl
sure but the world is very different now. the requirements and capabilities are different
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
keccers
@keccers.eth
How so. SpaceX has received nearly $20 billion in federal contracts since 2008. They are the closest to getting to Mars we’d have I would say and suck the govt teat hard
1 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
jd 🌺
@jdl
there's enough upside for that to continue to happen, regardless of public sentiment about one of many applications of those funds the technologies that enable Mars also enable Earth-centric applications
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
keccers
@keccers.eth
I think it’s unwise to assume that. Von Braun thought we we go straight from the moon to mars 50 years ago and we have not even been back to the moon. Things change. Example scenario: Then let’s say Butch and Sunni die, people already feel so aggrieved. ISS is being decommissioned soon. Why spend my $$$, billions of it, on paying a co to replace the iss? People are dying, we can save that money for our problems and not send up humans at all. Public demands pausing crewed missions You really never know
1 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
