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Yeah, it’s a perfectly reasonable view. We just shouldn’t pretend that space exploration would still be a thing if governments couldn’t finance it (which your p
by ffhhttt 3y ago
Yeah, it’s a perfectly reasonable view. We just shouldn’t pretend that space exploration would still be a thing if governments couldn’t finance it (which your previous comment sort of implied)
- eru 3y agoYes. Manned space exploration would probably not have been (much of) a thing. At least not until much later when the technology has improved. Unmanned space exploration would probably still have happened to some degree. SpaceX has a lot of private customers. (And I'm much less against governments financing unmanned space exploration than against them financing manned space exploration. That's just such a money sink.)