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I disagree. Familiarity with microgravity and the vacuum of space in orbit will make developments in interstellar travel that much cheaper.
by acchow 12y ago
I disagree. Familiarity with microgravity and the vacuum of space in orbit will make developments in interstellar travel that much cheaper.
- soperj 12y agoCool. Love getting down voted for having an opinion & starting the conversation.
- idlewords 12y agoI think we're pretty familiar with vacuum at this point. The obstacle to practical interstellar travel is 99.99999% propulsion, which you don't learn a lot about by endlessly falling in a circle.
- XorNot 12y agoAnd the obstacle to propulsion is the inability to lift large payloads cheaply enough into orbit to start with. The problem is we can't build big things in LEO. At the moment its that our entire LEO-access infrastructure is woefully underdeveloped.