SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Putin slashes Russia’s space budget and says he expects better results:
Russia plans to slash funding for spaceflight activities during the coming three-year period, from 2022 to 2024. The cuts will come to about 16 percent annually, several Russian publications, including Finanz.ru, report. (These Russian-language articles were translated for Ars by Rob Mitchell.)
For 2022, the state budget for space activities will be set at 210 billion rubles ($2.9 billion), a cut of 40.3 billion rubles ($557 million) from the previous year. Similar cuts will follow in subsequent years. The most significant decreases will be in areas such as "manufacturing-technological activities" and "cosmodrome development." Funding for "scientific research and development" was zeroed out entirely.
[...] Putin has reportedly told the Russian space corporation, Roscosmos, that it must increase the reliability of Russian rockets and "master" the next generation of launch vehicles. This directive has come in response to growing competition in the global space launch business, particularly from US-based SpaceX.
I guess Russia is throwing in the towel as far as space is concerned?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 13 2021, @12:32AM (5 children)
You have more faith in the public than I do. We don't wake up to facts until our noses are rubbed in the facts. Kinda like how events in Europe and Asia were just academic until Pearl Harbor. We won't understand where China is going, until they start dictating terms to us - and then we probably still won't understand how we got into that position. Can we recover from a service economy and student debt and the general dumbing down of America?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @02:48AM (3 children)
Since you're one of the more vocal opponents of the people trying to improve the US economy and education YOU tell us if it is possible to recover.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:21AM (2 children)
Yeah. Start by un-woking the education system, from K through post-grad. Cut funds for stupid dead-end studies, and give those funds to STEM.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @05:03PM (1 child)
How cute, the anarcho capitalist thinks their opinions are worth a damn. PC concepts are not the problem, quite the opposite. Anyone else rember some conservative dumb fucks trying to legislate pi as 3? Rightwingers are beyond dumb, we need a new word.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @04:52PM
Where is the anarcho when he is not advocating abolition of governing bodies? Please, smear the retards with the appropriate shit.
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Wednesday October 13 2021, @07:46AM
Actually that was what I meant. I guess I didn't convey it well.
Thank you for expressing it with more clarity than I could.
as to your question
I want to say yes because I have a niece who will be living in that future and I hope she will have a brighter future than what I currently see coming over the horizon. But honestly I don't think so, just looking at history we can see that no nation lasts forever, no matter how big or powerful they were. They all die eventually and something different, and hopefully better, will grow from the ashes.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."