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Look, if we're talking manned space flight, I was arguing against it 3 years ago in favor of robotic exploration. HN said I was wrong. As for X-Prizes, in gen
by melling 9y ago
Look, if we're talking manned space flight, I was arguing against it 3 years ago in favor of robotic exploration. HN said I was wrong.
As for X-Prizes, in general, I think they're a great idea. My blog is http://h4labs.org http://h4labs.org
I took h4 from the first "X-Prize". H4 was the version of the watch that won the money. It has been explained repeatedly why they're a great idea. Should I rehash it on my blog, because I'm not going to do it here, again?
Btw, it sounds like we might simply be arguing over what's a good "X-Prize"?
- Retric 9y agoYea, you completely misunderstood my point. Even just building and testing rocks has killed people because they are fucking dangerous. However, so is putting solar panels on people roofs. That does not mean nobody should build rockets, just that safty is a major consideration when building them. IMO, astronauts are almost irrelevant from an overall safty standpoint. Rocketry has killed more people on the ground than it has people trying to get to space, though this may change over time as we get away from those extremely dangerous early days. Ex: Just VLS-1 an unmanned rocket killed 21 peopel more than the total number of US astronauts killed so far.