this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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This post made me realize building a space program is the nation level "solution" equivalent of "if we just have a kid it will save our marriage"
So is this going to be a kerbal thing or a modded minecraft thing?
This is the real thing. This is your chance to visit other worlds.
Hmm. I do hate living on this planet. Let me go flip over my couch and see if any change falls out.
Getting outside the ionosphere sounds great and all but I kinda need gravity for my bowls to work.
Moving to Saturn as a remedy for constipation.
As Hexbear's resident rocket nerd/engineer I am prepared to take up the mantle on this worthy endeavor.
If you can design the spaceships, I'm good at X4 and know where to put them. The asteroid belt.
yeah man i flew a cardboard rocket to like 1700ft i got u
That's pretty high. With our collective experience I think we could get a lot higher.
yeah sure. totally. just send me like a few tens of those millions and ill see what i can do k thx
It wouldn't be ethical for me to take your money and then give you funds from the Starfleet budget. Instead we'll let you pilot a mining ship and you can harvest all the precious metals you want from asteroids. One asteroid and you're paid back with trillions of dollars of interest.
And how do you plan to get that mining ship up there?? Ive got u and Hexfleet by the throat now if i dont see the money flowing in by tomorrow morning you will have NOTHING
I thought that would be common sense. Design a rocket that lowers the cost per kilo into orbit to $10. Then build self-assembling orbital factories to design a basic asteroid harvesting platform. Use the revenue and resources from that to build a mining fleet. Snowball that into full orbital shipyards that can produce thousands of mining ships per day. Then everyone gets paid back.
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no more half measures walter
I got 6 maplebucks I can spare.
If I can convert them to cash, I will accept any kind of video game money. I'll even sell your MMORPG accounts.
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Now that the dirty owl is a capitalist can we make them put up the money first?
I think we should all put up money. If all 24700 of us send me just $40485.83, I will have one billion dollars for this. I've already contributed $15.
Makes sense to me.
I would happily send some billionaires on the Hexbear rocket to space
come together
You're spreading FUD. I want us to come together hard.
I have an engineering degree ~~that has nothing to do with aerospace~~ and I would be willing to provide my talents for the low low price of 1 million dollars
Would you really choose $1m today over trillions of dollars once your ship successfully snares even one asteroid?
[shoots off a bottle rocket] There's your hexbear moon mission, pal.
I'm so good at shooting those without them burning my hand. A rocket is the same principles with a different fuel.
moon mission
we talking real ones or just another deep space fake?
The real thing. You could be sitting on the moon sipping lunar water by this time next year if you just send me $2m over Venmo.
lunar water
[shudders in silent sea]
My pappy† always used to say, “you can’t have a nation without culture, language, and borders”. I think this sort of project could really bring us together by keeping our attention on our ideals for the future. We could call it futurism!
†My pappy was a fascist if that matters
We could go from a simple shitposting forum to the vanguard of humanity. The new cultural blueprint for our species as a multiplanetary civilisation.
I'm down. I don't hook anymore, but for an endeavor like this maybe retirement isn't the best option.
If anyone wants to get a job to fund this, I think we all owe you a round of applause from the Hexbear Starfleet.
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I built a couple of those Estes model rockets when I was a kid, I figure if we just scale it up enough we can get to the moon no problem.
Step 1 is to get the biggest cardboard tube we can find.
Cardboard's cheap as hell. It's carbon too.
Nature's carbon fiber, 100% recyclable/compostable
The hexbear space programs goal should be to put gigatons of gravel in orbit to kickstart Kessler syndrome.
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remember those "Chinese spy balloons"? We totally could do something
I have played Kerbal Space Program, which is like a PhD program in aerospace
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I have a degree in astrophysics but I’m really lazy. I’ll help if I feel like it maybe
Congrats, Chief Technology Officer. You now have sole and legal responsibility for the safety of my mining fleet.
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while I support disassembling earth for resources, let me assure you that your instance's culture still stands out plenty among all the Reddit clones
It stands out amongst them, but what about Lemmygrad? Their memes subcommunity directly appears next to ours in my feed. The only thing differentiates us from them now is that we have a Starfleet and they do not.
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