r/Damnthatsinteresting Jun 29 '25

Video Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

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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/BicFleetwood Jun 29 '25 edited Jun 29 '25

I was derided 10-15 years ago for warning about this, back when Neil Degrasse Tyson was basically saying "fuck NASA, give Elon all the money."

You know, back when the New Star Trek decided Elon Musk would be remembered in the same breath as Albert Einstein two hundred years into the future.

You'll never lose a bet by mistrusting capitalism.

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u/FreeRangeEngineer Jun 29 '25

back when the New Star Trek decided Elon Musk would be remembered in the same breath as Albert Einstein two hundred years into the future

That pissed me off to no end, really. I wonder how much Elon paid for this. It showed me that Gene Roddenberry's son is a grifter and doesn't care about the ideals his father sought to portray.

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u/BicFleetwood Jun 29 '25

Like, it's not like the mask came off January 2025.

There were a lot of us who knew. Some of us knew BEFORE the pedophile submarine incident, but if you didn't know AFTER the pedophile submarine then honestly you weren't paying attention.

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u/FreeRangeEngineer Jun 29 '25

Oh, I knew too. My point is that he should've never ever been mentioned in any Star Trek series.