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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4982804" data-attributes="member: 8863">That is ridiculous.  What's the point of building that thing if we're not going to use it?  The whole point of the shuttles were to build and service the space station to begin with, but then they were supposed to get started on it like 20 years ago.  Then Challenger blew up, funding got cut, and then we started getting wimpy on space.  That's about as much as I can really say before violating the whole politics ban, but a lot of this stuff is supposed to be long term gains.  It'll be difficult and expensive at first, but I seriously believe that we need to start working on lunar and Martian colonies for the long term benefit and survival of the human race, and do it seriously.  Plus while space probes are interesting, they don't capture the imagination of the public like manned missions do.  Look how excited people were when we dropped that rocket onto the moon a few weeks ago. I'm feeling the same way.  These private comanies have the money, the backing of investors who want to go into space because there's no tourist spots left on Earth for the wealthy to brag about, they've been to all of them (<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />), and the dream.  And they don't have to worry about elections and budgets and stuff.  Ok, maybe they have to worry about their stocks losing value, but that'll just weed out the inefficient companies.</blockquote>

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