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My favorite :agony-turbo: one of those is "we're not gonna put this lunar rover that we already built on a rocket that we're gonna launch anyway so :my-hero: can get more money"
Meanwhile China has I think three lunar rovers currently on the moon roving.
The bazinga car commercial in space moment was deeply demoralizing to me, and even on Hexbear there were some "I'm a leftist
" treat defenders trying to justify that aforementioned publicly-subsidized bazinga car commercial in space with bullshit excuses like "it was a payload test for the mission(tm) and they decided to have a little fun with the payload test, did you expect them to not have fun?" 
The answer is yes. I didn't ask to subsidize a fucking bazinga car commercial in space.
If the Apollo moon landing had a mandatory Coca-Cola sign installation moment "for fun" that'd have been crushing for me too.
I would support the use of a nuclear weapon in space if it was used to evaporate that car
They just couldn't think of a single better use for three thousand pounds of payload to solar orbit, right, sure.
The Falcon 9/heavy is the best amerikkkan launch system since Saturn but that's not a high bar.
Considering the Saturn rocket program was run pretty much entirely by paperclipped nazis, I'm gonna have to go ahead and say "nothing new under the sun."
I'd have accepted pretty much anything but an obnoxious flex from a private corporation and its products.
Call like any university and say "hey you got 3000 pounds of shit you want on a solar orbit? It might blow up, this is a test flight" And the answer will be "Yes, absolutely!"
I would have been fine with that. It may have actually promoted the bazinga corporation more than a narcissistic product flex, but this was