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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by Chris2048 on Thursday September 09, 2021 @09:53AM (#28469698)
> All of the "scientific work on" ISS is done with crew literally pushing an "on" button

Why is this relevant?

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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by naasking on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:26PM (#28473611)
I assume he means that the crew was superfluous because the "on" button could be pushed remotely or automated at a fraction of the cost of sending people to space.
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