keep seeing all these people posting about how happy they are to see these nasa photos. a little hollow considering what’s happening to the planet, and the people who released the photo are the same fascist scum helping destroy the world, but what do i know.
I saw a post of a female astronaut, the caption was “I’m not crying, you’re crying. A woman is one of the people looking at our planet from this view for the first time” or some shit.
And it’s like. Man. How many women are getting brutally massacred by the same government posting these images. How many future scientists and mathematicians and pilots and whatever else are just killed without a chance while everyone gets to lib out over NASA for a few days. Fuck
It is literally the essence of libbing out to only care about the idea of something while ignoring the material conditions that brought it about.
I'm sorry, you can not just be excited about science because this science is drenched in blood. People died to extract the materials the US used to make and launch the rocket. People died in the climate disasters created by the US and the corporations it protects. People died in the wars the US starts to further its own interest. NASA is a part of the US and can not be separated from the suffering it causes.
Not all science is doomed, China is doing great work in space right now that you could be excited about. But science does not exist outside the world it was created in and we have to treat it as such.