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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I'd amend that to say we only need to go as far as orbit... there are some useful things we could do there, from manufacturing products that are too difficult to fabricate on Earth, to global monitoring. I say stop there, we don't need to visit other planets.
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True, true. The Europeans didn't need to cross the Atlantic. And look where that took us....
I'm one for curiosity -- we don't know whether or not it is worth going into space (beyond earth/moon orbit), but if we don't go we'll never know. I've no problem with trying to do it efficiently, but I think it is somewhat short-sighted to say don't do it because there is no current benefit.