Peregrine lander: Propulsion failure threatens US Moon mission
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A US spacecraft launched from Florida to land on the lunar surface encounters propulsion problems.

Due to a power issue, it looks like the lander may now no longer have sufficient fuel to make a controlled landing on the moon. This was the lander that was set to carry human remains to the moon despite objections from the Navajo nation. Hopefully, this discourages any future attempts at such a stunt, since instead of a permanent mausoleum your ashes may instead be stranded in orbit or scattered amongst the moon dust if the thing crashes.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      no argument here

      Then why are you defending this absurd project? You aren’t even doing liberal ideology coherently if you (correctly) say that their money should probably just be taken from them if this is what they are spending it on. So what, you acknowledge that this is a socially worthless endeavor such that it would be more pro-social to seize a portion of their assets, and in fact that them trying to do this should be considered a good pretext for such a seizure, and yet simultaneously that the endeavor should but considered sacrosanct?

      I am begging you to read any [leftist] critiques of liberal political theory. Literally any. This contains an offhand example that is nonetheless very solid.

        • WithoutFurtherBelay [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          ‘the moon belongs to everyone (but not rich people)’ is shitty reasoning

          it’s called compensating for inequality of opportunity dumbass

          edit:

          and i think that ‘[group] think its bad to put bodies on the moon’ […] is shitty reasoning

          it’s called compensating for inequality of political power dumbass. We haven’t been listening to “[group]” for literally centuries. We have to at least make an attempt to catch up before treating them the same as all the people we already listened to. If it was some random christian denomination you might have a point, but these are people we’ve been killing en masse for fucking ages. The least we can do is not LITERALLY throw shit at the things important to them.