You can’t say it isn’t copium and then go into a bunch of sour grapes about how the moon is dumb and who cares. The whole world was pretty psyched about it at the time.
And it’s not like someone who reads this meme is going to come away with an accurate impression of the space race. People in this thread are talking about how “the US did this one thing and that’s’ it”
Yeah people were “psyched” about it but when they stopped being psyched and stopped watching - when they lost the tv ratings - the Apolo mission was canned.
How is what you said even vaguely a rebuttal of the idea it was showy propaganda with minimal scientific value?
Playing golf on the moon actually wasn’t an important thing to do. It’s cool, I’d like to do it… but it’s really pretty superficial. It’s a vanity propaganda piece and nothing else that’s why we didn’t go back because it doesn’t matter.
How is what you said even vaguely a rebuttal of the idea it was showy propaganda with minimal scientific value?
Why is such a rebuttal needed? The fact that the space race was about propaganda first and scientific and engineering advancement second is baked into the conversation. Does it apply more to the moon landing versus other parts?
The Apollo program lead to a ton of advancement in a bunch of different fields. So many spinoff technologies were created because of it. Also rovers go at a pretty slow pace, humans are more efficent for in-depth research.
You can’t say it isn’t copium and then go into a bunch of sour grapes about how the moon is dumb and who cares. The whole world was pretty psyched about it at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Space_Race
And it’s not like someone who reads this meme is going to come away with an accurate impression of the space race. People in this thread are talking about how “the US did this one thing and that’s’ it”
Yeah people were “psyched” about it but when they stopped being psyched and stopped watching - when they lost the tv ratings - the Apolo mission was canned.
How is what you said even vaguely a rebuttal of the idea it was showy propaganda with minimal scientific value?
Playing golf on the moon actually wasn’t an important thing to do. It’s cool, I’d like to do it… but it’s really pretty superficial. It’s a vanity propaganda piece and nothing else that’s why we didn’t go back because it doesn’t matter.
Why is such a rebuttal needed? The fact that the space race was about propaganda first and scientific and engineering advancement second is baked into the conversation. Does it apply more to the moon landing versus other parts?
And they did science on the moon.
your comment reduces to “it was of minor scientific value but a propaganda win” which is exactly what I’m saying.
It’s four sentences long, why are you reducing it? I was agreeing that this meme is cope. You’re the one who moved to that framing.
Edit: not an important argument
The Apollo program lead to a ton of advancement in a bunch of different fields. So many spinoff technologies were created because of it. Also rovers go at a pretty slow pace, humans are more efficent for in-depth research.