Trump seeks $1 billion for private-sector-led human missions to Mars
https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/trump-seeks-1-billion-for-private-sector-led-human-missions-to-mars-125053100112_1.html
Trump seeks $1 billion for private-sector-led human missions to Mars
https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/trump-seeks-1-billion-for-private-sector-led-human-missions-to-mars-125053100112_1.html
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I can’t wait for the day we stop hearing about this clown. Fuck this guy.
As in he wants to give his buddy Elon $1 billion?
Trump to do more clearly illegal stuff to help his buddies. More at 6.
Yep Musk definitely left government alright. Nothing suspicious here.
Fuck all these clowns.
What does he think $1 billion for a mars mission will do? Does he think we can get people to mars for billion because “a billion dollars is a lot of money”.
If he wants a mars mission to ever happen he needs to increase NASA spending instead of trying to slash it and quit trying to give tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy.
At best he’s looking for a headline on him “making a great deal” to further a mars mission even though he and everyone around him knows $1bn will barely make a dent in the funding needed to make one happen.
That sounds suspiciously low for such an endeavor
“Conman declares his need for $1 billion slush fund”
I mean, is anyone shocked by this? THIS WAS THE PLAN THE WHOLE TIME!! We fucking warned you but the Musk Fan Bois came here and in an organized fashion down voted ANYONE who tried to make this point. DECADES of work, research, development and effort is going to be sold for pennies on the dollar to if not just given away so that people like Musk and Bezos can stand on the shoulders of actual rocket scientists and start the great slave colonies errrrr I mean “corporate interests” of tomorrow.
If this comes to the inevitable conclusion that dystopian sci-fi writers have predicted, I truly hope that your great great great grandchildren take their 15 minute allowed breaks during their asteroid mining and refinement operations to piss on a photo of you in Trump gear at the bottom of the urinal.
If it was good business, he would invest that billion himself, wouldn’t he ?
… A human mission to Mars will cost *at least* $1 Trillion. You need to send the habitat and many resources ahead of the manned mission, research still needs to be done on how to keep humans from going insane in a spacecraft for 3 months and keep their brains from melting from CME exposure, and most designs for a habitat that could sustain humans safely on Mars are still in the “fancy CGI demo” stage and face serious design considerations that have not occurred yet.
In short, this is just an excuse for Trump to hand Musk $1 Billion so that he won’t tweet every stupid thing he heard Trump say in the White House.
Elon can use some of his own billions he already stole from the people.
Hold on and stay with me now.
Instead of giving $1 billion to Space X howabout giving $1 billion to NASA for the same thing?
If only the government had some sort of an official space agency, lol.
Remember when republicans were up in arms about choosing winners and losers in the fReE mArKeT?
Didn’t they just cut NASA’s budget nearly in half???
Jesus fucking Christ I can’t get away from this fucking orange grifting con man, every fucking sub as something to do with this fucking mfer Christ on a fucking cracker
Und what is this billion going to do? Funding a study how much it is actually going to cost?
Or designing a glove for an EVA suit?
If he, his family, Elon, and Stephen Miller are going, they could raise that in small dollar donations in no time.
“Private sector” = SpaceX. Let’s not try and hide behind the beaded curtain. We can all see what it going on. And that money will….up and vanish.
Lol this shows how extremely little he knows. 1B ain’t gonna get you to Mars unless you plan on staying there and dying on arrival.
That money could be better used for a moon mission. Going to Mara right now is a waste of time.
Key takeaways I got from this article:
>calls for allocating more than $1 billion for Mars exploration. Under the proposal, **Nasa would award contracts to companies developing spacesuits, communications systems and a human-rated landing vehicle to foster exploration of the Red Planet**
>Trump’s proposed $18.8 billion Nasa budget would **cut the agency’s funding by about 25 per cent from the year before**
>According to the budget, **the contract to land on Mars would build upon existing lander contracts**. Musk’s SpaceX is already developing a version of its Starship rocket to take Americans back to the moon’s surface under the agency’s Artemis program
>Instead, the budget details a strategy for new, **private sector-led trips back to the moon**
Essentially, NASA is getting a budget cut in favor of awarding the private-sector with contracts. TLDR: It’s a money laundering scheme for Elon Musk
And Elon gets yet another government handout! How many clinical trials for life saving treatments did we have to cancel or how many career federal employees were fired to pay for Elon to get another B?!
So he’s stealing from the public to give more money to his investors, got it
A billion dollars gets you a polar orbiting weather satellite.
Source: I weather satellite.
Sounds a lot like government handouts …something something bootstraps
Gee, I wonder where this money would go to…
elon is a multi-billionaire, let him fund it himself.