Exactly where we are! It really sucks and we got to roll this shit back, because these people are bent on destroying everything just so they can get a little bit richerβ¦
Ugh, I have this timeline.
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MarjaE
March 8, 2025, 10:04pm
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Well, eventually weβll learn whether oligarchs are immune to the overview effect.
I think they are. Instead of looking down and seeing how small the world is, theyβll see how small everyone else is, and how awesome they are.
And we wonβt even get new languages.
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FGD135
March 9, 2025, 8:49am
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April 2026? Too bad that SLS will be cancelled and Starship/HLS wonβt be ready by then.
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They can always hitch a ride on a Chinese rocket.
https://www.space.com/the-universe/moon/china-plans-to-plant-a-waving-flag-on-the-moon-in-2026-heres-how
Chang'e 7 (Chinese: 嫦ε¨₯δΈε·; pinyin: ChΓ‘ng'Γ© qΔ«hΓ o) is a planned robotic Chinese lunar exploration mission expected to be launched in 2026 to target the lunar south pole. Like its predecessors, the spacecraft is named after the Chinese moon goddess Chang'e. The mission will include an orbiter, a lander, a mini-hopping probe, and a rover.
The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program is designed to be conducted in four phases of incremental technological advancement: The first is simply reaching lunar orbit...
Or they wait till 2028 and ask the Indians.
Chandrayaan-4 (pronunciationβ; from Sanskrit: Chandra, "Moon" and yΔna, "craft, vehicle") is a planned lunar sample return mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the fourth iteration in its Chandrayaan lunar exploration programme. As of January 2025 the conceptualisation phase has been completed, and the design phase is nearing completion. The mission is expected to launch around 2028. It is planned to return up to 3Β kg (6.6Β lb) of lunar regolith from near Shiv S The plan fo...
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Heikki
March 11, 2025, 11:51am
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Guess they should have gone with NMT .
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Starlink is certainly space junkβ¦
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This is not a man who is at all interested in investing any energy now for projects that wonβt bring him personal glory (or profit) while heβs still in office. Let alone something that most likely wonβt happen until after heβs dead.
The time for Trump to actually reach his target has already passed. There are only two launch windows for a Mars mission left during Trumpβs second term in office, according to SpaceNews. The next window is in late 2026, far too soon for any project starting from scratch today. The window after that is in late 2028, during the campaign for the next presidential election. Itβs a nine-month trip to Mars, so the country would have a new commander-in-chief for the landing unless Trump clumsily maneuvers his way into an unconstitutional third term.
And in all fairness if Elon didnβt believe that heβd get to Mars within his lifetime he probably wouldnβt be pushing for Mars missions either.
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