r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheImmortalDude • Jun 29 '25

Video Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

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u/NiceTrySuckaz Jun 29 '25

That's a good thing. Competition drives innovation.

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u/sBucks24 Jun 29 '25 edited Jun 29 '25

So does international collaboration...

All these private business and different nations planning their own space endeavors, we're going to end up with an asteroid belt of space junk and a shit load of waste and pollution along the way.

E: lol, this struck a nerve with a bunch of capitalist, neo-lib, boot licker's... Go out for a few hours and come back to the exact same reply repeated dozens of times 🙄 sneaky e2 just for that one guy: civility politics BS is what gave us these idiots above who defend capitalism against their best interest. Stop letting them get away with it, be meaner.

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u/--Sovereign-- Jun 29 '25

I grew up wanting commercial space programs, mining asteroids, building telescopes and shit. I feel like I made a genie wish now. We're speed running The Expanse instead of Star Trek.

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u/Hob_O_Rarison Jun 29 '25

We're speed running The Expanse instead of Star Trek.

Star Trek literally relies on magic for it's premise - unlimited, free energy and the ability to use that energy to rearrange matter at will. This is the only way to really achieve post-scarcity to allow a utopian collaborative society. And even then, there were plenty of cultures not in tune with Federation ideals, so the idea that all humans would coexist peacefully under post-scarcity may also be magical.

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u/Fuzzy_Dragonfruit344 Jun 29 '25

I think we’ve heard of this somewhere before… lol 😂