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by xrayzerone 2764 days ago
> It does not show in money, or people going to STEM field

Anecdotally, I know many a kid who has taken an interest in space and rocketry after watching a SpaceX launch.

What empirical data have you to show that there is no correlation between space awareness (whether by Musk or anyone else) and STEM enrollment?
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nabla9 2764 days ago
> Anecdotally, I know many a kid who has taken an interest in space and rocketry

I was personally inspired to go to physics partially because of my love of sci-fi and all space related. That's completely orthogonal to the skeptical sentiment or lack of moon landings in my lifetime.

Real "space awarenes" comes with facts, not with hype. You can drive only so much motivation from outside.

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tomp 2764 days ago
Right but to be able to absorb facts you first need to be excited. Like all the efforts for more kids/blacks/women in STEM/programming don't start with "this is a variable, the program will crash if you add a boolean to a string" but instead start with flashy things like games or robots or large salaries to get them excited and interested first.
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xrayzerone 2764 days ago
And the facts, as stated in this article, are that the Starship design has changed, which you seem to conflate with marketing. So which is it.
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nabla9 2764 days ago
I was not discussing the article.

It's the frequent meta comments like dimillian above about "hate" and "negativity" that I find negative and harmful. They try to steer the tone of discussion to direction that the commentator feel more comfortable with.

Wanting protect feelings from getting hurt even in discussions related to technology and science are absurd.

'Say only positive things or the fragile Mars mission will collapse.'

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