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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Really cool stuff but I struggle to see what it truly enables to be able to deliver 100 metric tons to low earth orbit "cheaply"? A new cooler space station?

To me the real breakthrough would be in making space travel feasible. As it is now the time it takes and the radiation + small debris out there make it seem very distant.

But maybe this could be a step if they could build a space station so large that you could assemble a space ship there and launch from there with all the benefits of fuel savings that would entail? Realistically though there is no money in it until reaching the asteroid belt and mining there comes into reach. That would truly trigger a space age, if something came around that makes that feel within reach.

[–] fustigation769curtain -3 points 10 months ago

The entire point of investing in space is to make rich people richer quicker with government money.

Space travel is extremely expensive and provides nothing for average people. It's a win-win for the ruling class because they get to make money hand over fist while the lives of ordinary people stagnate and deteriorate.

Useful idiots will disagree with me, though.

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