she makes me so unsure of myself

hello!!! i saw your reblog of my post and i thought id put it here to just clear some stuff up. the moon wont be badly affected and has definitely gone through worse.

i get that the moon has gone through worse, and i don't mean to be a COMPLETE bitch, but

(1) even if it's not worse for the physical reality of the moon it feels worse for human society that we allow the richest person ever to exist to have a company that negligently pollutes outer space, than to have like a piece of space rock collide with the moon. it's bad that we're in this position, socially. (i get that he wasn't trying to land on the moon, i knew that, and it doesn't change how i feel about it.) it was already bad when space was a dickmeasuring contest for empire, and it's also bad that space is a dickmeasuring context between the world's dumbest people (billionaires) who have no incentive to even pretend to consider the public good or even just more people than themselves or anything other than their own misguided bids for immortality/to make science fiction reality. and the collision with the moon is of course making headlines but what's worse is the amount of clutter and junk that spacex is leaving in low earth orbit, because besides just leaving human-made objects outside earth, that stuff directly threatens the sustainability of space as a public good for science and for everyone for generations into the future