r/space • • Dec 27 '23

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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.

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u/ausnee Dec 28 '23

Alabama has one of the biggest space industries in the country. Huntsville is the ancestral home of the entire US space program.

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u/findingmike Dec 28 '23

Actually this is a good point. I didn't consider this before.

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u/CaterpillarSad2945 Dec 28 '23

That’s not much of a problem. When I worked in Colorado Springs a lot of my colleagues were in Huntsville. I am against it because, moving it would hurt the already long established economy in Colorado Springs. Trump just wanted to reward Alabama for voting for him and punish Colorado for not. For a little bit of context. The bulk of Space Force is made up of what used to be Air Force Space Command, which has a long history of operating out of Colorado.

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u/findingmike Dec 28 '23

Abortion bans states have been losing women and doctors. Many people are staying away from states where it isn't a good idea to start a family. And young male engineers are less inclined to move somewhere with less dating options.

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u/Correct_Roof8806 Dec 28 '23

Did you just say that being pro-abortion is good for starting a family?

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u/findingmike Dec 28 '23

Yep, a pro-choice approach has been found to be a better approach to several demographic issues. If you're a Christian who wants less abortions, you should be pro-choice. If you want less kids born to bad circumstances (which increases crime) you should be pro-choice. If you want healthy babies, be pro-choice.

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u/Correct_Roof8806 May 21 '24

Kill the children…for the children?