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Apollo was cancelled because after all the patriotic hoopla died down people realized this stuff was far too expensive to be of any practical use. That hasn't
by tsotha 12y ago
Apollo was cancelled because after all the patriotic hoopla died down people realized this stuff was far too expensive to be of any practical use.
That hasn't changed, either. There simply isn't any reason to send people to space.
- Fuzzwah 12y agoExcept for all the unknown reasons. edit: oh and the obvious humanity sustaining environment redundancy reason which Elon Musk believes is important enough to invest time and effort into SpaceX.
- tsotha 12y agoI'm reluctant to support the expenditure of trillions of dollars because of "unknown reasons". If we want to find something out we can do so far more easily and cheaply using unmanned probes. And what "humanity sustaining environment"? That's a pipe dream - if you had the technology to colonize mars you could do better by building a bunker complex on the earth.