>it's just that a giant space station is even more pointless. Sorry, but this comment is just plain ignorant. Would you also call the Apollo missions pointles

>it's just that a giant space station is even more pointless. Sorry, but this comment is just plain ignorant. Would you also call the Apollo missions pointless? Building a giant space station would give us a permanent and significant presence in space, and would give us enormous advances in technology as we figure out how to deal with the challenges of such an engineering undertaking, just as we did with Apollo. Moreover, the station would have a lot of other uses, such as manufacturing. You can't do zero-g manufacturing in Antarctica. There's untold uses for low-g or zero-g manufacturing, perhaps things involving crystal growth. The station can also be a waypoint for asteroid capture missions, which would give us immense mineral wealth without having to do environmentally-horrible mining operations here on Earth.