+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7cAEISaO4c
and how many years of nonstop driving of internal combustion engine cars were that?
clown world.
@Pat
> How many of those vehicles were driving for frivolous reasons? To drive somebody to a sports event or on a camping trip.
i think these are much more important than giant rockets for vague ideas of space exploration.
air travel needs to be reduced too before individual mobility is targeted. hell, why is kerosene tax exempt nearly anywhere while gas and diesel aren't?
>"i think these are much more important than giant rockets for vague ideas of space exploration."
I think space exploration is much more important than sports. It has given us weather satellites, SkyNet, GPS; it may be used to mine asteroids for rare minerals to use in green energy technologies.
Some people may think that sports is more important than space travel. Everyone values things differently. We have a way of arbitrating those different value perspectives, it's called capitalism. You put a price on what you value, and make choices based on that.
Musk wants to transition the economy away from fossil fuels and insure the survival of the human species. That's what he values. This is part of a strategy that he feels will make that happen.
@Pat
> It has given us weather satellites, SkyNet, GPS; it may be used to mine asteroids for rare minerals to use in green energy technologies.
no, the military industrial complex has given us these things. weather satellites likely are the most civilian application. i can't look at the stars anymore without seeing some shitty satellite, likely without function now. mining asteroids is a scifi meme. recycling them would be more feasible, only that the market has found that mining them is still easier.
> it's called capitalism. You put a price on what you value, and make choices based on that.
sure, only that musks money is largely based on subsidies and broken steered markets. it all comes down to armed goons collecting tax money again.
> Musk wants to transition the economy away from fossil fuels and insure the survival of the human species. That's what he values. This is part of a strategy that he feels will make that happen.
musk does want to save his ass. if it involves other humans, it's by accident :)
@bonifartius
Actually, the rocket produced much fewer greenhouse emissions during its flight than did civil aircraft that happened to be in the air during the same time.
Cars that were on the road at the time produced about 833,000 times more greenhouse gas emission during the launch than the rocket did during its flight.
How many of those vehicles were driving for frivolous reasons? To drive somebody to a sports event or on a camping trip.