Goodbye. Hope ya make it, fellow humans. If not... eh... what is Boeing gonna do, shrug if off like it didn't happen?

Boeing is doomed lol

I feel sorry for the poor saps that are (hopefully) willingly boarding a potential flight of death…

april foul

Almost thought you were saying performing ritual sacrifices with them as the sacrifice, but that makes no sense in your context... :)

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i’ve read 17776 lmao

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Understood, I'm in.

ofc the saddest part was when he said that he expected to have lunar bases in the near future
50 years later and here we are
not even the most pessimistic people about space wouldve guessed that we wouldnt have had a base on the Moon by now



luckily we have the Artemis Program now at least
and China doing shenanigans on the Moon

yes

This is the landing from Intuitive Machines, it's a privately owned company, yes? This is pretty amazing

I love this news to the moon and back

yeah the outer space treaty isn’t gonna help lmao
because
1. you don’t need to claim land to establish a colony, just build something there and say “this building is mine, and due to safety concerns there is a radius 50m around said building that belongs to me” which is completely allowed under the outer space treaty because you technically didn’t claim any land
The Artemis Accords is (i think) the only law that even talks about this and they say (i think) that a country can claim a 10m area around their habitats for safety. Only thing is China hasn’t signed the artemis accords and so isn’t subject to that number

2. the outer space treaty was never meant to be permanent space law, it’s considered to just be a placeholder until something more serious gets put in place, so i don’t expect it to hold any weight for much longer

3. even if people took the outer space treaty seriously there’s no way to enforce it, and a law without a way to make sure people follow it isn’t really a law

4. China has been known to take a… unique viewpoint on laws. They’ve literally built islands in the ocean and said “hey look since I own this island my border actually extends out to here, not the internationally recognized one” and i find it extremely likely they’ll do the exact same thing on the moon (“hey look, i built another storage facility here, my colony borders are actually here”)

5. The outer space treaty says nothing about private companies, so countries could just get companies to build stuff for them and then eventually take over (british east india company is a nice example of this from the past that i could see something similar happening with the moon)

…but, but, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty "[precluds] any country from claiming sovereignty over outer space or any celestial body", so nothing bad can happen 'cuse there's paper….