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Disaffected

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8. You are correct - exploring space is not a waste of money.

Reply to Trueblue1968 (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 10, 2026, 01:06 AM

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The waste of money lies in taking humans along (having a bang for the buck about 1/10 that of unmanned).

This becomes evermore the case with the continued and rapid advances in robotics and AI.

BTW, the vid starts out wrong in claiming the Artemis rocket is "the most powerful rocket ever flown" - that honour goes to the Starship booster by about a factor of two.

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