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Space race for Bezos, Branson, Musk is a mere vanity project
- avmich 5y agoThe author is wrong. > The real danger of thrill-seeking via spaceship is that it distracts from problems here on the ground. I think this is the essence of what he stands on, and where he primarily derives his reasoning from. But this was proved to be wrong many times already. No desire to repeat it again.
- jjeaff 5y agoThe only thing that was proven was that throwing truckloads of government cash at difficult problems creates innovation. I think throwing tons of cash at difficult problems that would actually directly benefit humanity would be even better. You get all the collateral benefits as well as the possibility of solving a real problem.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoI agree with him re Branson's and Bezos's joyriding ventures. But Musk really has revolutionised an industry and has a functioning successful company. Only a few years ago reusability wasn't a thing in launch systems. And who does it better? NASA with their Senate Launch System?
- avmich 5y agoI agree with author on that this flight, this industry is not - primarily - about science. It is definitely useful for science, though in a roundabout way. But primarily it's for society. Apollo project was chiefly political - yet it keeps inspiring people, young minds and others, to look up differently. Which converts to very real dollars and science.
- musicale 5y ago> this industry is not - primarily - about science It's not rocket science - oh wait, it is rocket science! ;-) It's also about solving incredibly hard engineering problems.
- cyanydeez 5y agoif it were governmrnt managed, you could use govdrnmrnt projects to compare, but none of these private companies success will anyway equate to broader success, but more nooses of private ownership in a threat to atonomy, especially when theres much greater problsms like climate change
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