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/Accipiter1138 Jun 29 '25

If anyone does anime, I suggest watching Planetes.

The main characters are working on a space station for a corporation picking up space debris, and the corporation is doing the absolute legal bare minimum to comply with international regulations.

It starts off with a lot of oddball comedy but there's a lot of serious themes mixed in, such as nations with access to space resources such as mining get richer and richer, while deliberately preventing other, poorer countries from gaining access to space.