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And going back to the surface of the moon is the NASA vanity project.
by bonzini 4y ago
And going back to the surface of the moon is the NASA vanity project.
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoAnd? The greatest achievements humanity has ever completed are almost universally vanity projects. Nobody needs a Pyramid of Giza, or a Statue of Liberty, or to irrigate the desert using a massive dam. No one needs to go to space, or probe the workings of the cosmos. Hell, 99.99% of all software ever developed is utterly pointless, yet it employs every last person on this site. Humanity does stuff because we think we can do cooler stuff than the people who came before us. And that's a perfectly noble goal, unto itself.
- bonzini 4y agoI think space exploration with probes and space telescopes is more interesting. We've been to the moon and have taken back samples, and it was frickin' awesome, but there are cooler things to do now.