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> The fact is that space stations, like all crewed spacecraft, are a collosal waste of time and money kept alive primarily by stupid romanticism (and don't even
by indymike 2y ago
> The fact is that space stations, like all crewed spacecraft, are a collosal waste of time and money kept alive primarily by stupid romanticism (and don't even start with the laughable "lifeboat" crap). That's going to stay true for a long, long, long time, and maybe forever.
> But at least now it's more fools wasting their own money and less fools wasting other people's money...
I'd rather the fools waste their money (and yours, to) on laughable crap like keeping humanity alive than not so laughable crap like waging wars.
- psunavy03 2y agoUnfortunately, there are times when wars need to be waged, which means nation-states need to be prepared at all times to wage war. (gestures in the direction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces)
- RunningDroid 2y agoAgreed, to paraphrase Major General Smedley Butler: War is a racket, but it's not always your racket.
- psunavy03 2y agoTo paraphrase Trotsky, it doesn't matter whether you're interested in war. It matters whether war is interested in you.
- asdff 2y agoToo bad space missions are not about keeping humanity alive but about trying to establish for profit enterprise.
- pfdietz 2y agoFor-profit is a terrible way to organize humanity, except for all the other ways. It turns out there's no workable alternative to allocation of resources by means of markets.