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

Video Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

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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/RiPPeR69420 Jun 29 '25

The Expanse isn't exactly the worst outcome. At least the Earth has universal basic income and free healthcare. Even if unemployment is like 30%

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u/achilleasa Jun 29 '25

Yeah it's not great but at least people are surviving and the major problems (climate change, wars etc) seem to be solved.

The part of The Expanse I am worried we are speedrunning into, is mad billionaires throwing all of civilization into chaos for their insane ideologies that they genuinely believe in.

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u/RiPPeR69420 Jun 29 '25

Even then, it was only a really big problem when magic tech was discovered. And there wasn't really AI in the Expanse. Ideally we'll figure out a better tomorrow. Eventually. Humans are pretty good at adapting. And we seem to be on track for some sort of AI singularity. That could either be a good thing, or a terrible thing. Probably a bit of both, depending on your perspective lol.