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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8339764" data-attributes="member: 50987">Meh.&nbsp; I'm a civil engineer; I'm not all that impressed with luxury high-altitude plane tickets for the super-rich.&nbsp; If you want to impress me with your wealth, let's have a race to see which billionaire can improve the most bridges, or remove the most garbage from the ocean.&nbsp; Maybe a race to see who can build the most efficient desalination plant?The suggestion that these rockets are somehow making life better for everyone because of the amount of money changing hands and the technological breakthroughs?&nbsp; I don't know what to say to that except there are other hands to put money into, other sources that it could trickle down from, and other technologies that could be improved upon.&nbsp; The problem is that they are all boring.&nbsp; --sigh--Spaceships are cool and exciting and loud and have flames coming out of the back...people make movies about spaceships.&nbsp; A bridge just, you know, sits there quietly helping an entire city grow and thrive and do business 24/7 for a century and largely goes unnoticed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 8339764, member: 50987"] Meh. I'm a civil engineer; I'm not all that impressed with luxury high-altitude plane tickets for the super-rich. If you want to impress me with your wealth, let's have a race to see which billionaire can improve the most bridges, or remove the most garbage from the ocean. Maybe a race to see who can build the most efficient desalination plant? The suggestion that these rockets are somehow making life better for everyone because of the amount of money changing hands and the technological breakthroughs? I don't know what to say to that except there are other hands to put money into, other sources that it could trickle down from, and other technologies that could be improved upon. The problem is that they are all boring. --sigh-- Spaceships are cool and exciting and loud and have flames coming out of the back...people make [I]movies [/I]about spaceships. A bridge just, you know, sits there quietly helping an entire city grow and thrive and do business 24/7 for a century and largely goes unnoticed. [/QUOTE]

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