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Slava Ukraini (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by absentbird@lemm.ee to c/memes@midwest.social

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[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, war is a gigantic waste of human effort and resources. I'm not sure going to mars should be our next goal either, maybe we could decarbonize our power grids or start reversing desertification first.

Those are much larger and complex ideas though, this meme is just about changing the delivery address on the stuff that's already being shipped.

[–] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Bottom of the ocean. Better yet, recycling plant.

I mention the space industry because there's a lot of overlap between that and the defense industrial complex in engineering terms. NRO had a couple hubble-sized telescopes laying around they built and didn't use. USAF has their own space shuttle. They're currently planning to update all of our ICBMs. They could move other payloads to orbit. We don't even need ICBMs, with submarine-launched missiles, even the new ones will be obsolete bulls-eyes for nukes in the midwest.