Comments by "" (@Kyplanet893) on "NASA Isn't Landing On The Moon..." video.

Just so everyone is aware, there is an open letter to Congress going around urging them to refuse the cancellation of VIPER. Congress still has the ability to do this, as they're still in the process of writing a bill for NASA's budget. It'll be shown to them as early as Thursday, so we need all the signatures we can get. not sure if I'm allowed to send links here, so to avoid the risk of this comment being deleted im not going to, but the letter is made by NASAWatch and the article about it is called "An Open Letter To Congress Opposing VIPER Cancellation That You Can Sign", so if you search that up you'll be able to sign it
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@NicholasKoeppel no, viper would provide a ton of new information we do not already have its goal is to find water ice on the moon. We know it’s there, but we don’t know where it is or where the best places to get it are. That’s what VIPER was going to find out.
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@MersageSW i’m pretty sure it’d just get deleted, i tried in other comment sections and my replies just vanished i put the title of the website that has it in the comment though
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@jrodthegreat1 unfortunately that’s not how nasa’s budget works it’s not just “here’s 20 billion dollars this year go crazy” specific money is set aside for specific projects the money for VIPER and the money for Starliner aren’t the same pool of money, you can’t use one for the other
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@avgjoe5969 my long reply to your comment got deleted by yt moderation lol, but if you sort the comment section by newest and scroll down you should see it
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@Raz.C it’s a petition, it’s not legally binding or anything plus signing it from other countries will just show it has international support it’s not supposed to be an only american thing
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@eziepiezie non americans can sign
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@avgjoe5969 1. because Starship HLS doesnt yet exist, and we need VIPER on the Moon now 2. We don't need a massive Starship that will take over a dozen launches of refueling for a single small rover. Starship HLS will be useful for much bigger projects, its unecessary for VIPER 3. Redundancy is necessary. We saw with the recent Falcon 9 failure that SpaceX isnt invincible, and Falcon 9 flights are now grounded for the next few weeks. What happens if what happens to Starship HLS? We need multiple landers working around the clock so there's never a gap where we can't get to the Moon, and pouring all money into SpaceX isnt a good strategy, especially if for whatever reason SpaceX suffers a failure 4. So before you read this part, keep in mind that I like SpaceX. Theyve done absolutely incredible things. But they are not invincible. SpaceX can do wrong, and they have before. It's not as simple as "get starship and modified tesla bots just build the moon base bro". NASA has a long game, and that long game isnt "just rely on SpaceX to do everything" because thats a great way to get in a really terrible situation if SpaceX goes down. Not to mention how terrible monopolies are for industries. They bottleneck innovation, as once one company owns everything, theres no need for competition. Multiple space companies competing with one another is how things get done faster. If Starship wasn't rushing for the Artemis 3 contract, or trying to get finished before New Glenn, we would not have seen the rapid development we did. Again, don't get me wrong, SpaceX is objectively a good company. But it's important to realize that they are good and not perfect They're the best we have, but competition will make things better.
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@deanmartin2332 maybe it is in some places, but the permanently shadowed regions could have it just a few meters below. Thats why we need to find out
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@Colly1508 yes
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