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Submitted ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What a stupid example of false equivalence. The opposite is true. The Apollo program led to huge technological advances that also led to advances in medicine.

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    • Nythos@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes but you see, funny tweet go haha facts irrelevant

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Imagine if we actually tried to improve things without doing stupid space shit for nazi missile nerds ?

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      • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Doing “stupid space stuff” in no way prevents us from improving things. The NASA budget is not even a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. And getting rid of the nazi nerds is an entirely different conversation.

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      • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        We spend on space research that advances our understanding of physics and world about 2% the money we spend on military. Is this really the priority?

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  • Metostopholes@midwest.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think I would call Buzz Aldrin “boring.”

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    • Nightlight17776@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I would call him anything. He’s got a mean right hook

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And that’s sober. The rest of him gets mean when he isn’t.

        Neil was boring by most standards though. He was a boy scout with a death wish. Later on he got interesting by his hometown’s standards and painted his barn purple.

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    • miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He gets to live life being known as “Buzz”.
      How does life get better than that?

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Watch out, he’s a fighter.

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jokes aside I don’t like the “boring men” part NASA was THE example of “women in STEM.”

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  • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When’s the pollen season on the moon?

    I think you are missing the obvious cure handed right to you. Funding should be increased so you too can be free of airborne plant reproduction via the most sensible and straight forward method.
    If you are unhappy with the scenery, I am sure the technology developed for lunar habitation will also prove helpful for polar habitation, where similarly few natural particulates are dispersed.

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wish we would fund both. And socialized medicine.

    And end hunger and homelessness.

    And

    And

    And

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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We could. But think of the shareholders.

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      • relativestranger@feddit.nl ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        we would all be ‘shareholders’ of public services for public good.

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      • SARGE@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think of the shareholders, board, c-suites, and all of their friends every time I gaze upon my Guillotine.

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wish granted. Instead giving 3% the annual military budget to nasa we give 4% now. The new research in physics helps everyone and advances our society.

      But just like with every monkey’s wish there is an unexpected side and it’s that even tho shareholder profit didn’t increase in short-term, in long-term they got better lives too now due to trickle-up economics.

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  • onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Allergy immunotherapy is absolutely a thing.

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can get sprays to completely alleviate symptoms. And if it’s a severe case you can take injection. There’s also inmune therapy to permanently cure it.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Of course we should care for the vulnerable in our society. Of course.

    But may^yyybeee^ if touching grass kills you, you’re supposed to die.

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    • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s a Louis CK bit for those who don’t know the reference: youtu.be/XLGzFQg_1xc

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      if touching grass kills you, you’re supposed to die

      So like, inspire of the fact they need it, your saying 2/3rds of Lemmy needs to die?

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But mayyyybeee if touching grass kills you, you’re supposed to die.

      like, i don’t know this, but maaaybe a lot of allergies are symptoms of us living in a modern society, instead of in the woods. that makes a whole lot of differences and actually does some changes to our immune systems somehow. don’t ask me the details though, they’re nasty and hardly comprehensible.

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you are so greedy you could be a billionaire, then you SHOULD have died already.

      There should NOT be billionaires, it is a deep moral failing. Likewise, even governments officials and party leaders, should never be allowed to touch such powers.

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      • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They’re joking by referencing a bit: youtu.be/XLGzFQg_1xc

        It’s not clear that they are so I can see the confusion.

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  • bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well that would require us to be in a society that values scientific research and investing in the public interest.

    Unfortunately we are living in an age of deception and greed.

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  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    down here chokin’ on grass, (but Whitey’s on the Moon)

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am pretty confident that mRNA vaccine research is going to lead to the cure for the common cold along with cancer, Parkinson’s, MS, etc.

    We already have an effective AIDS vaccine now. We are getting really close to stopping a lot of human suffering. This is probably why the current administration is trying to pump the brakes.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      the current administration is pumping the brakes not because they’re trying to stop cancer from being cured, but because they’re dumbasses who have no idea what they’re doing. don’t suggest they’re intelligent enough to actually understand the outcomes of their own choices.

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  • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean… I wish I could blame the guy for not going to the doctor (Americans will do anything but try going to the doctor), but we’d also rather put people on the moon than give free at the point of care Healthcare to people…

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