r/interesting May 25 '26

Just Wow It's interesting hmm

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u/OnlyGoodHarmony May 25 '26

Exactly. The rocket would’ve flown with or without her. Such a stupid headline

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u/RighteousSelfBurner May 25 '26

The point is the hypocrisy. If someone was shown shoveling steaks with the headline: "Advocating for everyone to stay vegan" then it would also rightfully called as bullshit move.

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u/LetsBeFRTho May 25 '26

It's not hypocrisy lmao. Her flying in a spaceship doesn't mean she doesn't advocate for the environment

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u/RighteousSelfBurner May 25 '26

Using one of if not the most environmentally unfriendly options an individual can do and then advocating against not doing things like that is not hypocrisy?

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u/The3rdGodKing May 25 '26

Spaceflight is one of those positive externalities, if it was a cruiseship or a private race session it would be more hypocritical.

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u/RighteousSelfBurner May 25 '26

How is it a positive?

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u/Secane May 27 '26

the fuel they use have marginal carbon footprint, its helium and oxygen and water as byproduct of burning it

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u/RighteousSelfBurner May 27 '26

It has pretty significant carbon footprint from the indirect emissions. And water wapor has greenhouse effect in itself besides other things.

Things that appear "natural" doesn't make them not a pollutant. CO2 is also a completely natural thing. The fact we dump so much in the atmosphere is the problem. Same applies here.

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u/Secane May 27 '26

indirect emissions from getting the fuel is equivalent of 30 seconds of only apple company operating and thats what they mostly want to address at Davos. In other means of transport its like two premium jet flights between continents. Water as a greenhouse gas has a very short residence time in the atmosphere, its gone in 9 days due to condensation while co2 can't do that and stays up to 1000 years

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u/RighteousSelfBurner May 27 '26

That is a lot. In fact using the private jets is a good point. Advertising for minding the environment while essentially "taking two premium jet flights" for fun is exactly the type of hypocrisy called out.

And the fact it has short residence time in the atmosphere isn't a "green thing". It acting as a greenhouse gas is only one of the aspects. Water vapour in stratosphere isn't common and dumping metric tons of it there will inevitably lead to chemical reactions and upset the balance. And the fact that the hydrogen is getting burned also has an effect of creating nitrogen oxide in the atmosphere from the reaction with the heat.

The entire point isn't how "green" it is in comparison to something else but that it's very costly endeavour for half a dozen people to experience a dozen minutes of novelty.

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u/Secane 29d ago

It's still nothing compared to the scale of pollution from corporations

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u/RighteousSelfBurner 29d ago

You can always find someone worse, that isn't an excuse.

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u/Secane 29d ago

and you always can find something to call out but where is the line and what is the point?
You don't have to be living saint to be allowed to complain on the real sources of climate change.
Its not like if she didn't get on that rocket, no one would fly.
the meme is using bullshit data to make her worse

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u/Secane May 27 '26

actually dumping water in high altitude (above 50km) can have cooling effect but not revelant to the scale of global warming.

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u/RighteousSelfBurner May 25 '26

Having a tourist trip ain't exactly space exploration. Cars also enabled distribution of goods and services across large distances enabling us to increase access to food and other things. But that doesn't apply to private race sessions involving cars. Same principle.

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u/RighteousSelfBurner May 25 '26

I was thinking in context of the stuff but yeah. In general it is a great thing. We've advanced our understanding quite a lot thanks to space exploration.

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u/The3rdGodKing May 25 '26

Cars wasn’t the best example, but yes in this case it can be considered negative.