Honestly, just saving people time in reading this thread. The article seems like a hit piece and I attempted to call that out. I tried to zoom out and look at the bigger picture by saying SpaceX is actually a big improvement over other companies in terms of environmental impact in that they are reusable (vs literally everyone else putting the first stage in the ocean). You said that was whataboutism. Then, I attempted to zoom out again by saying there are bigger environmental impacts outside the aerospace sector (like all the war and all the lives wasted there). Then you said that was whataboutism again and that I shot too low with my comments. Just seemed like a waste of time, probably for both of us, and provides zero value to anyone else. I wish I hadn't even read this post of attempted to comment on it. You probably see this totally different than me. That's the funny thing about all this.

For what it's worth, I guess you're right in that this is a whataboutism. You could take this line of thinking to the extreme, do I not cut my grass, in that I might kill some ants? Like, it needs to be cut. We need to get to space and there is going to be some costs. So, yeah, they killed some birds, a bobcat, and burnt some grass. It's worth it. Until now, I didn't realize my algorithm for caring about stuff was to prioritize my outrage via whataboutisms.

Hopefully, we can agree to disagree. Wish you well.

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