Maybe it will implode?

you can already make the argument that both things could be cool and good

charge 1 billion and put it into healthcare

but that aint going happen everyone in America knows that

They can get their nephew who's good at the "space games" to pilot the ship too!

Cheap bastards won't even chip in for a decent HOTAS or a hall effect modded elite controller I bet.

Since it’s going to be rich clowns that make the trip up there, I’m fine with both happening.

Can we send Musk?

This will inevitably happen one day, and yeah it could happen for 2027 I guess.

Majority in House, supermajority of 60 in the Senate, practically speaking.

PROBLEM:

Not all Democrats are onboard with universal healthcare. Hence the fiasco in 2009.

Bare minimum 60 in the Senate and 218 in the house, a long with a president that supports it. But given that many Democrats take money from health insurance companies and have a vested interest in stopping universal healthcare, you'd probably need a supermajority (2/3) in both houses to pass it, as some Dems will inevitably vote against it.

They had it for about 50 days in 2009.

That's when we got the ACA.

I don't know, but first they need a leader who's actually interested in singlepayer in the first place.

Obama could have gotten it done if Dems had the willpower in that short window. They'll get another chance at some point. Will they jump on it next time? I'm not sure. Some of them are taking that same billionaire money.

It can however explode, since there's more pressure on the inside.

Don't listen to him, I have a Miele vacuum and there's loads of pressure in it

It's pretty disgusting to hope that people die just because they are rich. In the real world, that makes you just a trashy edgelord. On Lemmy or Reddit I'm sure you'll have a positive balance of updoots though.

You could for example, wish the rich people would donate large sums of their fortune to help the needy, instead of wishing that they die.

For real for real, the sheer level of conspiracism and explaining away the fact that Boomers will actually go out and fucking vote.

It can't be that the people who disagree with them go out and do the one "praxis" they have to be dragged out kicking and screaming to do even for the guy they claim to support, no, clearly the DNC is responsible for Bernie losing a race he got less votes in!

Well... At this point boomers will soon be losing their death grip in the party because of attrition. They're getting old. Millennials will soon outnumber them in terms of likely voters.

Tell me about it. We could have had Bernie.

Not far off: Futurama. "She's built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a bistro."

Close - Futurama

I'm not so sure about that, that kid didn't want to be there. Everyone else thought, yeah.

If there's a point where apathy is worthy of death, is there a point where extreme apathy is worthy of an extreme death?

Our opinions differ and that is ok. You may shed a tear when Elon dies in his own man made space coffin. I won't even lift a finger to say goodbye.

Quite frankly, I don't get wishing death on billionaires. Most people I see saying this are against the death penalty. So why are they seemingly for it when it's billionaires? I want billionaires to not exist anymore, but the medium through which I want that to be achieved is by taking the vast, vast majority of their money and throwing them in jail for any wrongdoing they did to gain said money.

It takes years. And I'm fairly sure this is in reference to what Axiom Space is undertaking (https://www.axiomspace.com/). This project is past critical design review. Taking from NASA's industry standard project scheduling perspective, that places it about halfway to completion, project wise.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/212/2013/06/1018616main_Image1.jpg

Edit: For the record, I have no clue if that puts it on target for 2027, just adding some context.

There's no technological barrier to starting it now we have all the capabilities, there's only a financial constraint.

SpaceX has significantly reduced lift cost into space but it would indeed cost trillions. Current lift capacity isn't saturated but they would definitely need the additional capacity of their next gen rocket to service it and then multiples of those. Unless Boeing and Blue Origin get their shit together.

Lift capacity becomes less critical if metals mining and refining in the asteroids gets up and running, then you can much less expensively move material from asteroids to the space hotel. That's def decades away though, there's tech issues with that still unresolved

TL;DR start project in 2027 ? Sure if they can find the money, definitely take decades to finish with currently planned lift capacity though. Needs asteroid mining to be viable

Healthcare is expensive, people are homeless, people are killing each other. Yup.

Space tourism is very very bad for the environment. Let's work on the space elevator first.

Even given all likely extinction events, earth is still less hostile to human life than anywhere else we know of.

Even after some full scale nuclear war, I think you’re still better off here.

Exactly. The better we get at launching into space and making habitats, the sooner we can escape.

Naah... Building megastructures in space is a piece of cake. Literally. We would be in microgravity, correct? Hence, while building the structure, we would just have to ensure that every unit area of the surface of this cylinder can resist a centrifugal force of 1G. This is akin to building a very large single story building.

The hurdle here is getting the raw material for building this. We would need lunar mines for this to be possible at least in the Terran/Lunar orbit. Now, establishing mines on the moon would be complicated initially. However, once we do that, the universe is ours, literally.

But essential medicines are free! Where do you live? Syria or something?