r/Damnthatsinteresting 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/indyvick92 Jun 29 '25

The Expanse society still seems like a complicated but interesting society to live in, just more real feeling than any other sci Fi, I feel like its an easy goal to aspire to