Is there anything humans won't fuck up?!

[NotDarkGothicMama]

I've just seen that NASA's building a nuclear reactor on the moon, building no-go in a race with China and India. BBC News link

Why?! Just why. It's bad enough we've covered our planet and choked its orbit in junk and pollution. Leave the moon alone! The last thing we need is another "resource-rich" bit of land for countries to fight over.

"According to American media."

It's not going to happen. It can't currently or in the next five years.

Hopefully not but that won't stop them snarling at eachother like they're currently doing over the Arctic.

To answer your question, no. There's nothing we won't fuck up.

I’d be prepared to bet a large sum that this won’t happen.

Wouldn’t a moon base be more useful? Why can’t they colonise it ahead of Mars?

I agree. We’ve trashed the earth and now we’re going to trash the moon and mars too.

Sounds like willy waving by men who have no idea how they will actually do it.
Even the scientist quoted in the article seems to think it's bilge.

No air, no water, no public transport and an en suite nuclear power station. The first estate agents on the moon are going to have a hard job making their commission.

Why does it matter ? The moon is a barren wasteland. I'd rather they build a nuclear plant there rather than on earth (though I'm a bit baffled by how they plan on bringing the energy they produce back to Earth).

The nuclear power station currently being built in Somerset is three times over budget and about six years behind schedule (they've already been going hard at it since 2017). Somerset has a good road network, skilled people, air, water, gravity and a great bus service.

If it's this much of a ballache of a job in the west country (right alongside an existing nuclear power station) the idea of cutting the ribbon on one in space by 2035 sounds bananas.

Well it matters to us because they will be launching radioactive material through the Earth's atmosphere.

They plan to use the power up there for space antics. It's not for us Earthlings.

We're a self-destructive species so clever and yet so dumb.

Yay wars for a planet that's not our own.
Human fuck ups on tour.

Although you are actually talking about a British project - we are supremely shit at completing any big build.

At some point we are going to have to leave the Earth and I expect it’s not going to be in the very distant future - a couple of centuries and the place is going to be barely habitable surely?

True. It's being built with French and Chinese money though.

The only people who have fucked up here are the credulous news media who reported this obviously impossible story.

Oh give over. We haven’t trashed the Earth. The Earth is doing just fine and will long outlive us.

If we give it a chance. I doubt we as a species will be selfless enough to die out without taking much of the earth's life with us.

Appropriate user name.