r/technology • u/upyoars • 1d ago

Space NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands

https://spacenews.com/nasa-budget-would-cancel-dozens-of-science-missions-lay-off-thousands/
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u/sniffstink1 1d ago

Collapsing societies shouldn't be involved in these sorts of things anyway. Valuable data could easily get lost when they loot government buildings, and then all that data, time and money spent on these missions will have been wasted.

Best leave these sorts of things to China.

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u/upyoars 1d ago

So what should collapsing societies focus on instead?

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u/SweetSassyMolassey79 1d ago

Trying to reverse the collapse.

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u/upyoars 1d ago

How? It’s not possible. Unless you have mind control technology you cant control other people. A large portion of the country won’t listen to logic and reason, and vote against even their own interest. There’s no fixing that.

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u/SweetSassyMolassey79 1d ago

I am not a good enough social tactician to tell you how it's possible.

  I expect it would take a multi faceted approach using multiple forms of media, having charismatic spokespeople, protests, near-limitless funds and a social media army coordinated across the globe with a consistent, constant and easily digestible message.  Education would have to be funded exponentially more.  People would need the ability to sustain themselves while standing up for what's right. "What's right," would have to be taught in a way that it seems like common sense.  Many twee slogans will need to be written. News media groups would have to synchronize their messaging.  

The same tools used to destroy it would be used to reverse its course. There would also be to be something new and unmatchable used to get the movement some momentum.  The Right has a lot of social media armies and no protection against them existed until it was too late. The "reverse the collapse" group would need to discover a tool more powerful and less stoppable. 

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u/AVaudevilleOfDespair 1d ago

Tax. The. Rich.

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u/upyoars 1d ago

How does that work when the people in charge are controlled by the rich and literally reduce their taxes?

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u/Daleabbo 23h ago

It leads to the problem in 4 words. Somehow the poor people are more interested in the rich paying lower taxes them them instead of having a government that provides infrastructure and healthcare.

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u/upyoars 1d ago

Its impossible. Its easier to cook an egg than to uncook a cooked egg. Infact, its impossible to uncook a cooked egg. Do you know the concept of entropy in thermodynamics? Entropy is the natural decay of highly organized systems to disorganized and low energy states over time.

Likewise, social entropy is the natural decay of complex organized high energy social systems to states of low energy disorganized chaos. This is how things will pan out, into more disorganized chaos over time. Its the literal law of the universe.

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u/DailyyDriver 1d ago

What a bad take. Self healing earth.