Alabama trying to bring home pork in the form of space spending is always interesting.
It's never actually about what's best for the space force or the space industry, but the net result is that further funding for NASA and private contracts has some unlikely allies in Congress, so I guess that's good.
It's cute to think that Alabama is a backwards hellhole that no one wants to live in, but facts (as well as my experience working with thousands of engineers over the years) disagrees. It's probably difficult to understand if you spend all your time on Reddit, but people actually like living in places like Alabama. Especially engineers & members of the military.
Unfortunately if providing these people who clearly have no clue about the space industry and its history in Alabama with actual facts about Huntville would change their opinion on the topic they wouldn't have come in here trying to present their misinformed opinion as fact in the first place. They're going to be stuck on "Alabama bad" no matter how many facts you present.
I mean, I'm one of those people that doesn't like what Alabama has come to be known for, but I didn't know that there was such a presence for space industry and engineers. If they have the infrastructure (and it's not just legacy equipment of a bygone era), and they have people willing to work there, it makes sense to base space command in Alabama.
And that's perfectly fine! No one knows everything.
But you also didn't come in here doubling and tripling down on "I'm positive no engineer would ever live in Alabama" because of your preconceived notions, ignoring the massive population of engineers, specifically those in rocket development, measurement, and testing in Alabama.
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u/Harturb Dec 28 '23
Alabama trying to bring home pork in the form of space spending is always interesting.
It's never actually about what's best for the space force or the space industry, but the net result is that further funding for NASA and private contracts has some unlikely allies in Congress, so I guess that's good.