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Re:Billionaires extract wealth rather than create it by pnako on Friday December 06, 2019 @02:31AM (#21719899)
The Japanese space agency landed a robot on an asteroid, the European space agency landed a probe on a comet.

Meanwhile people like Elon Musk are mostly interested in vanity and commercial projects. Sure, there are worse ways to spend your money as a billionaire than being a space tourist, but let's not pretend he's bringing much progress.

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Re:Billionaires extract wealth rather than create it by r_deckard on Friday December 06, 2019 @02:55AM (#21719977)
His venture successfully built reuseable rockets that could lower the cost of spaceflight significantly. This would allow more people to do more things in space. Which could accelerate technological advancement in the space sector.

This is something no one else have been able to do up until recently. I would at least consider that as a notable progress.

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