This federation stuff has caused a bunch of tension. We should come together as a community by building a space programme.
This federation stuff has caused a bunch of tension. We should come together as a community by building a space programme.
It's hard to define what "Hexbear" is anymore, with so many of the posts coming from random Lemmy instances. Our brand and subculture are diluted and it shows. A lot more confrontation and friction in threads. So it got me thinking. How can we recapture the authentic sense of what Hexbear is and do something nice for the world as a community?
If you've been watching India's moon mission, you know how happy everyone looks in the footage. They're so proud of their work and the whole nation is congratulating them. Actually the whole world. It's a massive publicity boost and unites an otherwise polarised nation. Well what's stopping us from doing that? Think of all the cool things we could accomplish with a space programme. Designing new rockets, exploring new galaxies, maybe colonising a planet or two as a forum. We would let everyone know what Hexbear represents and could mine asteroids for orbital factories that supply our fleet of ships. One thing we might build is a Dyson Sphere, or maybe even a generation ship to raise the next ten generations of our families together on our way to another solar system. I'm a plant scientist and could probably even grow lettuce in microgravity.
We can do this. I just ask that you trust me and send me the money to do so.
My money's all tied up in nfts, can I send you those?
Yes. And if anyone wants to open a credit card account and give me the number and not look at the statement, we can achieve this together.
That's great! I've turned my ownership of my limited edition nft over to you.
I'll get started on the credit cards
This post made me realize building a space program is the nation level "solution" equivalent of "if we just have a kid it will save our marriage"
I'm waiting for my comrades to join me. Where is everyone.
here, i've brought supplies.
So is this going to be a kerbal thing or a modded minecraft thing?
no more half measures walter
I got 6 maplebucks I can spare.
If I can convert them to cash, I will accept any kind of video game money. I'll even sell your MMORPG accounts.
Yea 6 maple bucks equals like 2.5 freedom dollars.
Now that the dirty owl is a capitalist can we make them put up the money first?
I think we should all put up money. If all 24700 of us send me just $40485.83, I will have one billion dollars for this. I've already contributed $15.
Makes sense to me.
I would happily send some billionaires on the Hexbear rocket to space
come together
You're spreading FUD. I want us to come together hard.
I have an engineering degree
that has nothing to do with aerospaceand I would be willing to provide my talents for the low low price of 1 million dollarsWould you really choose $1m today over trillions of dollars once your ship successfully snares even one asteroid?
[shoots off a bottle rocket] There's your hexbear moon mission, pal.
I'm so good at shooting those without them burning my hand. A rocket is the same principles with a different fuel.
moon mission
we talking real ones or just another deep space fake?
The real thing. You could be sitting on the moon sipping lunar water by this time next year if you just send me $2m over Venmo.
lunar water
[shudders in silent sea]
My pappy† always used to say, “you can’t have a nation without culture, language, and borders”. I think this sort of project could really bring us together by keeping our attention on our ideals for the future. We could call it futurism!
†My pappy was a fascist if that matters
We could go from a simple shitposting forum to the vanguard of humanity. The new cultural blueprint for our species as a multiplanetary civilisation.
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It wouldn't stand out. Reddit already made Dreddit in EVE and it was accidentally wildly successful. We can't match that level of success in Star Citizen since it's full of well-established players. Space flight though is an emerging industry. There isn't even a lunar colony yet, let alone a spaceship capable of FTL travel through the warp. With so many subscribers in c/science I think we could easily achieve that just by starting a megathread.
I'm down. I don't hook anymore, but for an endeavor like this maybe retirement isn't the best option.
If anyone wants to get a job to fund this, I think we all owe you a round of applause from the Hexbear Starfleet.
If there's streets on the moon I'll be on the corner.
I have a degree in astrophysics but I’m really lazy. I’ll help if I feel like it maybe
Congrats, Chief Technology Officer. You now have sole and legal responsibility for the safety of my mining fleet.
Automatic reply: I am currently out of the office. Please reach out to manager for urgent issues.
remember those "Chinese spy balloons"? We totally could do something
I built a couple of those Estes model rockets when I was a kid, I figure if we just scale it up enough we can get to the moon no problem.
Step 1 is to get the biggest cardboard tube we can find.
Cardboard's cheap as hell. It's carbon too.
Nature's carbon fiber, 100% recyclable/compostable
I have played Kerbal Space Program, which is like a PhD program in aerospace
Has the sequel stopped being a disaster yet? Actually got to the Mun and back in KSP2 but the aerodynamics were borked as hell last time I tried
Hahahaha nope.
It's so bad that I'm honestly starting to think KSP2 was just a scam. KSP1 unmodded still has many more features and gameplay mechanics than KSP2 does. With mods, the difference is astronomical. KSP2 has slightly better graphics than unmodded KSP1, but with mods the difference is once again astronomical.
You can make KSP1's graphics look massively better than KSP2 with mods, and even the most graphically taxing mods only require something around a 1070ti. KSP2's recommended graphics card is an RTX 3080, and for all that power you get a shittier looking game and lower frame rates with stutters. That's absolutely disastrous.
In the months following KSP2's release, the daily total playerbase of both KSP1 and KSP2 halved according to steam statistics. A ton of players left KSP1 for KSP2, realized it was garbage, and were so soured by the experience that they never even returned to KSP1. It's almost certain that the game will never have all the promised features because it's most likely not selling well enough to continue development long enough at the very slow pace updates are coming out right now.
Edit: Almost forgot to mention the most comical part of this. After all that, KSP2 in early access costs more than KSP1 completed.
The hexbear space programs goal should be to put gigatons of gravel in orbit to kickstart Kessler syndrome.
We must protect the rest of the universe from EarKKKth
while I support disassembling earth for resources, let me assure you that your instance's culture still stands out plenty among all the Reddit clones
It stands out amongst them, but what about Lemmygrad? Their memes subcommunity directly appears next to ours in my feed. The only thing differentiates us from them now is that we have a Starfleet and they do not.
Correction: We have the biggest Starfleet. With six sides.
I can only support this if we go wandering earth and take the earth with us
We would be the most powerful forum in the solar system if we all come together and build the Badger-class Dreadnought. The earth would be forced to go wherever we want.
And don't forget Valentina
I used to build bombs from fireworks and chemicals I found in the garage as a kid, I'm pretty sure I can design and build a rocket engine
Aerospace engineer here - I'm in. Hexbear to the Moon!
It would be much cheaper to replicate the Spanish Space Program. Hypothetically. In Minecraft. [PARODY].
I disagree. We should host the Olympics instead.
This would get especially funny when we get to the part about deciding which countries get to use their flags and which athletes have to enter as independents because of the various atrocities their nations have performed and liberals would mald.
Hosting the Olympics would be exclusionary. I can't run or fence well enough to participate as part of the Hexbear Nation so I'm just left selling hotdogs or delegating where chairs go. With a Starfleet, everyone can participate. We can fly Badger-class fighters in a squadron, haul ore in our Badger-class freighters as a convoy chain, or branch out into the universe on our own in Badger-class generation ships. You give me $50k or whatever you've got today and within a year* you could be destroying Neptune with a Badger-class titan. Just for fun with your friends.
Dyson sphere? Outdated scifi. How about a Dyson hexagon?
Also, if a mod doesn't delete this you're cowards.
This kind of collaborative brainstorming is why it's such a good idea. NASA has one brain per engineer. We have 20k brains and a couple engineers. There are so many ideas we could feed them. I don't care what shape the Dyson enclosure is, only that we show the Fediverse that we're still a forum by enclosing the sun.
Is this one of those GameStop things
I may invest SOME* of the funds raised in surefire ways to 10x-1000x our budget, yes.
Fill the space balloon with all of our collective semen / whatever the ladies shoot out their pee holes. Just get it all out and be done with it.
Thank me later, Volcel Police.
The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
I've been told it's called "sewomen", and I should stop being exclusionary.
All ejaculate is valid.
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