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8. It's my personal opinion that manned space flight is pointless...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Dec 6, 2024, 01:38 AM

Dec 6

... and that natural born humans will never have a significant presence in outer space.

If our civilization survives a little while longer then a few more humans might land on the moon and that will be that, for centuries at least.

Star Trek is fantasy. There's no such thing as warp drives in this universe. And outer space is a very very hostile environment for beings made of meat.

We ought to be spending that money on sophisticated robotic space exploration.

My wife disagrees, and our children have friends who are engineers on the Artemis project. They've got the tee-shirts. My grandfather was an engineer for the Apollo Project.

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Tremendous waste of money. Earl_from_PA Dec 5 #7

It's my personal opinion that manned space flight is pointless... hunter Dec 6 #8

Yeah, I think robots and probes are our best options. Crowman2009 Dec 6 #9