Policymakers need to read A LOT more fiction. Well-researched fiction tells me this is a Very Bad Idea. Such a bad idea. The inability of policy makers to imagine potential outcomes had me shaking my head back in 2003 over Iraq, and nothing has changed. www.amazon.com/Life-As-We-K...

This is the second time the Trump admin has made me exclaim « ALICE! »

I need to pretend to be conservative and open a company to get in on this scam. Since we're just throwing money away. . .

I could make so much more money if I was a worse person. Like jfc

Omg they are insane and stupid

No one should ever feel Imposter Syndrome with these people running the federal government bsky.app/profile/hura...

Meanwhile China is just going to send up solar panels. I’m surprised the Trumpists aren’t looking at sending a diesel generator.

As the difficulty becomes apparent they'll switch to "nuke the moon" because it's easier and more shocking

So friggin dumb. Saw the comparisons to supervillains and it's wholly unearned. This shit isn't feasible on the entirety of NASA's budget pre-Trump

Yeah, we’re on a 30 year plan to get people to the moon, but yeah we’ll build a nuclear reactor up there in 5 years!

0.0% chance this will happen.

Why does this read like a convoluted way to give Elon Musk access to nuclear material?

Then again, that scenario most likely resolves itself with Elon attempting to make "radioactive K" and promptly Curie-ing himself.

Didn't this already fail, catastrophically, in 1999? 🤔

…is that legal? I know space law is a thing and I thought that making unilateral decisions about the moon was not permitted.

LOL. LMAO even.

For real, is Sean Duffy an actual mooninite?

wtf is it even going to power

Yes Duffy, I too liked For All Mankind, absolute banger series, but you forget that in that timeline, NASA actually continued to get proper funding for all that.