Why did Americans lose interest in space?

[MWil23]

3 minutes ago, Outpost31 said:

Who cares about lifeboats when your ship is sinking? 

[MrDrew]

I don't think there's a loss of interest in space at all. Look over the last few years at thing like the Mars rover, all of the stuff from Pluto, landing on a comet, sending a satellite plunging into Saturn, and the millions of views one of the people on the ISS get when they post something to social media. In a time where a news cycle is measured in minutes, all of those things were talked about for weeks.

The Mandalorian, Doctor Who, The Expanse, and The Orville are all TV shows set in space, and doing well. All of the Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Martian, Arrival, Planet of the Apes, Hidden Figures, First Man, and some other movies have done well in the box office.

[skywindO2]

People just aren't interested in(and/or can't afford) the suburban McMansions that previous generations bought and prefer the cozier space offered by smaller homes.

[bucsfan333]

In this economy?

[11sanchez11]

On 1/13/2020 at 5:43 AM, SwoleXmad said:

People say this and it horrifies me.

We've explored maybe 5% of our oceans.

We've explored 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000infinity1 of space honestly this forum doesn't have the server space for the amount of zeroes you'd need.

We know more about the oceans than we do space. 

1% of 1000 is more than 100% of 1

So what he said could be true as a total

[11sanchez11]

Just read the OP, wasn't expecting the fictional TV route to be reason for asking this

[Hunter2_1]

Because you figured out that, in this case, you had a bigger penis than your main rivals at the time (Russia).

 

NASA's budget in the 60s (% of fed budget) averaged about 2.5% including getting up to 4.41% in 66

 

Since the collapse of the Sov Un, spending has only got above 1% of fed budget twice (around the same time as the collapse). Since then, 0. something % every year. Last year; 0.47%.

 

 

That's undoubtedly far too simplistic and only one reason, but there you go. Not to mention as we get more polarised, spending has found a lot of opposition from certain groups.

 

 

edit: oh, you actually meant fiction. Crap. 

 

Edited January 16, 2020 by Hunter2_1

[Calvert28]

On 1/14/2020 at 12:31 PM, Nazgul said:

Who cares about space when Earth is trying to kill herself.

Tell her she has alot to live for. I hear that works. 

[bucsfan333]

23 minutes ago, Calvert28 said:

Tell her she has alot to live for. I hear that works. 

"It's not you. It's us."

[MKnight82]

This poster has made 2 posts on this forum, both are about Battlestar Galactica.  Please ban this poster, obviously bot.  

[skywindO2]

1 hour ago, MKnight82 said:

This poster has made 2 posts on this forum, both are about Battlestar Galactica.  Please ban this poster, obviously bot.  

I believe they go by Cylon 

[incognito_man]

Lotta money flowing into space programs (public and private) these days!

My industry is booming, actually.

[Tugboat]

On 19/01/2020 at 9:28 AM, MKnight82 said:

This poster has made 2 posts on this forum, both are about Battlestar Galactica.  Please ban this poster, obviously bot.  

The main thing is just that you're hella anti Soviet.  I think that'll burn itself out probably.  

[Slateman]

Because we beat the Ruskies but discovered the moon wasn't made of cheese like we were promised. 

[Tugboat]

On 28/01/2020 at 12:59 PM, Slateman said:

Because we beat the Ruskies but discovered the moon wasn't made of cheese like we were promised. 

It was indeed a sad day, when American learned that Wisconsin was in fact, still necessary and integral to the Union.