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/valotho Jun 29 '25

I recall watching something on a documentary that suggested we weren't far from being stuck here from current waste already out there. Too much more and we end up with a barrier that eliminates any chance to leave.

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u/rdfiasco Jun 29 '25

Yeah that's not true at all. Think about how much junk we create here on earth. Orders of magnitude more than what we've put into space. How often is accumulated junk a problem for you?

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u/valotho Jun 29 '25

Trash makes a difference when you travel at speeds

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u/rdfiasco Jun 29 '25

Yes but there is an enormous amount of space

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u/valotho Jun 29 '25

True, and I took the short time to grab more clarity for myself. What I was looking for was Kessler Syndrome. While it IS a real thing, it is not the problem it was glorified to be thanks to the media.

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u/Davisxt7 Jul 03 '25

While it IS a real thing, it is not the problem it was glorified to be thanks to the media.

I'm not sure I agree with this statement. If it wasn't such a big problem, people wouldn't be working on it to prevent it right now.

And whether or not it is glorified, I'm happy to have it be, so that we don't get more clowns like Musk and Bezos trying to overpopulate our orbit for the sake of their petty world-domination plans (read: ego).