Only 50 years behind schedule. π
this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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This won't happen under the Trump administration.
He wants his name on it, so he actually apparently really pushed Isaacman to make it happen before he's out of office. Of course, that's not possible, so who knows how much he cares anymore.
He definitely intends to still be in office whenever it finally happens.
I wonder what the bookies would give you on that bet because there's a very good chance he'll be dead before the end of his presidency.
Him, or one of his kids, will be in office if this ever gets finished. The Trump family isn't going anywhere in 2028.
Stop with the doomerism, it's not helping anyone. Yes, he probably intends that. But assuming he's already won makes it easier for him to actually win.
Obligatory reminder that he's not even eligible to run!
Correct. And yes, he's likely at least thinking about trying to make some rule changes or pulling some sort of shenanigans to get himself on the ballot anyway. But if we expect that to happen, it makes it all the more likely that he will, and that it'll succeed. Treating his victory as fait accompli just normalizes his abnormal behavior. It's a form of obeying in advance. We have to remain flabbergasted and horrified at his actions so that we can react to them correctly.
So far
Better late than never I guess?
Coming soon.
Permanent moon base for ??? But no universal healthcare.
Haha. That wonβt ever happen in America.
This. I donβt know why people ever even talk about universal healthcare. If it ever happened here, the place wouldnβt be called the USA. Not even worth talking about it, 0.0000000% chance of EVER happening.
To make it happen would require a massive bloody revolution where the rich are executed and thousands of corrupt people are imprisoned for treason.
Thatβs as likely as China becoming actually communist and getting rid of state capitalism and state approved oligarchs.
Or, Russians finally not falling out of windows on a daily basis.
Never gonna happen.
That's like saying it's impossible to end slavery in America. Or it's impossible America would ever bow down to Russia.
Both of which have happened various points in history.
The moon base is for insurance CEOs to hide from people that are not getting the health care they are paying through their noses for.
They can afford it cause they are not paying for their customers health care.
I don't think so. Human bodies weren't made for 0g. The CEO's would likely stay here and send the poor's to the moon to work the mines.
Whiteys living on the moon.
I don't want to look up at the moon and see that bullshit. You know the Epstein class tech bros are going to put ADS ON OUR FUCKING MOON.
They would have to be enormous to be seen from earth. When viewed from earth the moon only has a visual size of approximately 1 cm so the ad would have to be a thousand of kilometres across to just appear miniature from our perspective.
What if they use giant projectors directed a earth, you would see the ads on the clouds, in the sky! Wouldn't that be awesome?
That's not how light works. In order to be bright enough to illuminate clouds on earth it would have to be brighter than the sun at its source point because of the Inverse-square law
The techbros already have this idea with a satellite it wouldn't work with that either for exactly the same reasons and the satellite would have been way closer.
Why?
Million times cheaper to launch rockets from the moon than from earth. Easy access to almost an infinite amount of useful materials.
Could easily end wars on earth so we don't fight over some lithium in eastern europe. Or enough materials and batteries replace petrol once it runs out.
And who knows maybe our mars descendants will come back to repopulate earth
This is ignoring the massive costs in building, staffing, and maintaining a moon base. There are battery chemistries that do not rely on lithium and even there weren't, we wouldn't need to fight wars over it. The wars are fought in an attempt to control those resources, even if not scarce. Expanding territory does not reduce scarcity when the scarcity is artificial (so that a few can exert control over the many). Also, why would the earth be depopulated while mars somehow thrives?
Because the rotting empire needs to keep up appearances.
Said the haters every time someone pushed the boundaries of science and technology.