Post AiDdp3fYIQsTM20xA8 by AskPippa@c.im
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 (DIR) Post #AiDdozpgYobfSIizOy by JohnBarentine@astrodon.social
       2024-05-22T20:18:20Z
       
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       #TIL that fortunately someone has already invented a term that was on my mind but for which no word seemed to already exist. Thank you, Urban Dictionary: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Spacewashing#Spacewashing #Space #SpaceSustainability
       
 (DIR) Post #AiDdp1Psfj9aMqfPSS by dfrancis@mstdn.social
       2024-05-23T10:15:42Z
       
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       @JohnBarentine NASA's budget in 2023 was about $25 billion.  The defense budget for 2023 was over $800 billion and the welfare budget was over $1 trillion.  They're not "hiding" anything behind NASA, the idea is ridiculous.  Ditto for private space companies; SpaceX spent about $1 billion, Blue Origin probably about the same.  The space program has been accused of stealing funding from social programs since it started and that's just nonsense.
       
 (DIR) Post #AiDdp2rDJabypuSkhU by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
       2024-05-24T13:45:07Z
       
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       @dfrancis That is not what @JohnBarentine is talking about."spacewashing" is things like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and SpaceX promoting their roles in supplying NASA missions while they make huge amounts of money out of weapons contracts.e.g. Lockheed Martin alone makes several times NASA's entire budget from its DoD contracts.
       
 (DIR) Post #AiDdp3fYIQsTM20xA8 by AskPippa@c.im
       2024-05-24T14:04:42Z
       
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       @michael_w_busch @dfrancis @JohnBarentine That Urban dictionary definition is somewhat unclear and can easily be interpreted as negative for the whole space program.
       
 (DIR) Post #AiDdp4KJqrUHOT5Vho by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
       2024-05-24T14:26:11Z
       
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       @AskPippa @dfrancis @JohnBarentine The essential part is of spacewashing is "to mask extractive and exploitative industrial practices, distract attention from social, environmental and economic problems".Such as, for example, SpaceX's pretending to be sending humans to Mars acting to distract from the company's horrific environmental impact and lethal exploitation of labor.