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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by trhway on Saturday February 20, 2021 @07:31PM (#26209577)
>It's a shame that the lunar gateway is useless

with the number of billionaires walking around, it probably can make a decent money as a tourist destination. Especially if there is an option to get down for a walk on the surface. Though it can become quickly at least partially outdated once one can just charter a Starship to make a quick long weekend trip around the Moon.

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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by rektide on Saturday February 20, 2021 @08:05PM (#26209812)
Oh great, the jet-setting class destroying the earth wasn't doing it fast enough: now the rich jerks are going to ruin the planet & burn gobs of energy going to into space.

What a dark evil Neuromancer 'the rich floating above the problems of earth (that they have created)' prospective.

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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by zitterbewegung on Saturday February 20, 2021 @08:57PM (#26210120)
You have just stated the plot for Elyssium .
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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by JohnJamesRambo on Saturday February 20, 2021 @08:06PM (#26209818)
Just to clarify, are you suggesting NASA should make a lunar gateway so billionaires can walk on the moon?
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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by trhway on Saturday February 20, 2021 @08:14PM (#26209870)
Otherwise taxpayers have to fully pay for the station.
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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by manderley on Saturday February 20, 2021 @08:25PM (#26209944)
Or maybe don't build the station. Also, the way the US government is funded, printing money is paying for things, not taxpayers.
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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by ALittleLight on Saturday February 20, 2021 @09:31PM (#26210299)
Printing money is paid for by people who hold US currency. More money created means diminished value of existing money.
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