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Re:Kharkovchanka – Soviet Antarctic Cruisers [video] by avmich on Friday July 24, 2020 @11:03AM (#23940325)
How would you judge what you could learn being close to a place for extended, uninterrupted periods of time? How would you get incentivised to invent something out of this world because you're in another one?

Unique experiences are something which you can't have otherwise. So you're missing them if you're not close. Why to have such a disadvantage, maybe not for everything, but for something?

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Re:Kharkovchanka – Soviet Antarctic Cruisers [video] by duxup on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:47PM (#23941648)
I just wonder if the scale of effort to colonize and support humans really provides a net benefit considering how successful remote programs have been.

There's so much you don't need to do if you're not sending humans.

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