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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by signatoremo on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @04:50PM (#33442728)
Modern computer hardware doesn’t bring us the internet, among other technology advance, but for sure if nobody was working on it in the 1950s, 1960s there wouldn’t be the Internet we all so rely on today. Starships, a lot of them, are prerequisite if we want to have any significant presence in another planet.

> there are good reasons why the ancient Egyptians did not start work on a rocket program.

They didn’t have the required knowledge to do so. The rocket equation, after all, was only established a hundred years ago.

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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by tsimionescu on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @04:55PM (#33442802)
The problem of going to Mars is more or less solved. Advancing on the rocket front is not going to bring us one iota closer to knowing if humans can mate in very low gravity.

Also, computers are useful even if we didn't think of the Internet. 1000 space ships on their way to Mars are not very useful if we can't actually live on Mars.

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