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.
come together
You’re spreading FUD. I want us to come together hard.
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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
I regret to inform you that I have just cached this image in my browser and its value has therefore diminished.
You could sell your browser. We’d be funded in no time!
Very disappointed to not get
Wot if PPB was an NFT
That rare Foghorn will sell for at least $50k. We’re that much closer to space.
So is this going to be a kerbal thing or a modded minecraft thing?
This is the real thing. This is your chance to visit other worlds.
Hmm. I do hate living on this planet. Let me go flip over my couch and see if any change falls out.
Getting outside the ionosphere sounds great and all but I kinda need gravity for my bowls to work.
Moving to Saturn as a remedy for constipation.
I would happily send some billionaires on the Hexbear rocket to space
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 got 6 maplebucks I can spare.
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.
remember those “Chinese spy balloons”? We totally could do something
no more half measures walter
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 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 that long at the very slow pace updates are coming out right now.
And don’t forget Valentina
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.
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.
I’m waiting for my comrades to join me. Where is everyone.
here, i’ve brought supplies.
