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I want to be excited but I keep coming back to confusion over what the actual purpose of this will be. Flight has very clear benefits: getting you from A to B w
by afavour 5y ago
I want to be excited but I keep coming back to confusion over what the actual purpose of this will be. Flight has very clear benefits: getting you from A to B way faster than was ever possible before. With space flight there is no B to go to. You go up, you come down.
If these companies were making breakthroughs in making space long term habitable I’d be excited. But I’m yet to see that.
- alfalfasprout 5y agoActually, point to point travel on earth is something virgin galactic is targeting. If you can go to the edge of space you can travel at ludicrous speeds.
- nickik 5y ago> With space flight there is no B to go to. That not the case. Suborbital space flight of the model BO or Virgin do is, but that simply not generally true.
- nimithryn 5y agoI see these launches as early stepping stones to really profitable space industries. Asteroid mining, space manufacturing (like Varda: https://varda.com/ https://varda.com/), space hotels. You have to walk before you can run.