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by JumpCrisscross 244 days ago
> is a very good speech, very courageous

Really? It’s eye opening. But Destin seems to miss the point.

We’re not trying to go back to the Moon, one and done. That was Apollo. We’re trying to build a system that reduces the repeat cost of Moon access, with medium-term plans for permanent settlement. (Like in Antarctica. Not The Expanse.)

His criticism of Artemis is on point. But his anchoring to Apollo is bewilderingly blind. If we’re just redoing Apollo, the programme should be defunded. (If a NASA administrator set that as a goal, I’d argue the NASA manned spaceflight programme might need to be overhauled.)

> everyone in the room is hesitant to say yes

This is like Trump complaining his generals won’t laugh at his jokes.

These are senior NASA scientists. They’re listening to a talk, not a rally.

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They laugh at his jokes, and then sit deadly silent when asked "we're going, right?"

Does anyone expect were going to launch Artemis rockets over and over for decades? Aren't they extremely expensive?

Lol this is a rhetorical trick. A joke is expected in the middle of a speech. Audience responses to a question generally aren't. If you were speaking to all the mathematicians in the world and decided halfway through to say "What's the integral of e^x dx?" you'd likely get silence in response. "OMG most mathematicians don't know how to integrate e^x holy shit humanity is doomed".
He asked "what is this?" at some point, referring to a diagram, and someone immediately answers "a PID controller".

My claim remains that there are many who are working on Artemis that quietly believe it will not succeed. History will eventually reveal the truth about this; and yeah, I might be wrong, we will see.

I searched the transcript for "we're going, right?" and stopped it at the first section (here I rewound a little for you) https://youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU?t=1270

I'll address this to the third parties in the room who are not me or you: Click through and listen and if you are convinced it's a question you can go with Buttons840. If you're not convinced it's a question you can go with me. But it'll take you 10 seconds max. Worth it for you to see it yourself. No need to let anyone convince you.

> there are many who are working on Artemis that quietly believe it will not succeed

There may be. But Destin’s video doesn’t demonstrate that.