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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

While I agree, isn't the end goal setting up a base on the moon?Hopefully it will be science first and tourism later. I wish I could just fast forward to star trek time :)

[โ€“] NocturnalMorning 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Probably, and as much as I love the science fiction of space travel, real life me isn't so into have space truckers hauling dorritos to the moon.

This stuff creates environmental damage, tons of space debris, and the more activity there is in near earth orbits, the more possibility there is for conjunctions, which means moving your satellite and wasting fuel. It's just not that smart.

But we're gonna do it anyway.

[โ€“] overzeetop 2 points 9 months ago

creates environmental damage, tons of space debris, and ... wasting fuel.

So, pretty much, the things that humans excel at.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

They had a lot of luck on Venus..

[โ€“] Lemmygizer 4 points 9 months ago

Mid-term goal is to have a base near the moon to use as a staging point for interplanetary trips.