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You have to think beyond immediate practical applications and consider what an event like this would mean to our species as a whole. Neil deGrasse Tyson makes

• jerf 14y ago
  I'm against that plan though, because we tried the grand gesture approach and it didn't really lead anywhere. We don't need grand gestures, we need infrastructure and profitable things to do in space. For example, if somebody captures an asteroid rich in rare earths and begins mining it, they'll have every incentive to build a permanent station. We should build our way up and figure out how to make it work as we go, rather than trying to solve the hardest problem in human history with Big Up Front Design.