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Re:US Government is taking serious step toward space-based n... by asu_thomas on Saturday August 12, 2023 @04:46PM (#37104100)
Personally, I'd rather prioritize our fellow citizens having a dry place to sleep at night.
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Re:US Government is taking serious step toward space-based n... by version_five on Saturday August 12, 2023 @05:33PM (#37104440)
It's funny because it's this, turning inward and waging war on ourselves after there wasn't an obvious enemy anymore that's responsible for the decline the upstream comment was talking about. Post WWII through the 90s saw massive increases in global standard of living, 2020's the west has gone back to religious squabbles over absurd ideological things. Watchmen had a similar idea.
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Re:US Government is taking serious step toward space-based n... by pixl97 on Saturday August 12, 2023 @07:12PM (#37105065)
Post WWII understood how terrible war was. Post 90s those that experienced it in mass were going extinct. We forgot what fascism did to the past and too many are embracing it again.
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Re:US Government is taking serious step toward space-based n... by WalterBright on Saturday August 12, 2023 @08:14PM (#37105364)
Or the definition of fascism has expanded to cover all one's political enemies.
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Re:US Government is taking serious step toward space-based n... by pixl97 on Sunday August 13, 2023 @02:39AM (#37107266)
https://youtu.be/9XTJNy_OrjE

Why does the definition need expanded?

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Re:US Government is taking serious step toward space-based n... by zaptrem on Saturday August 12, 2023 @04:49PM (#37104122)
Investment in space has historically led to a disproportionate return in economic growth.
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Re:US Government is taking serious step toward space-based n... by FirmwareBurner on Saturday August 12, 2023 @07:13PM (#37105068)
Probably because there is no oil in space and nobody to sell ads to.
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Re:US Government is taking serious step toward space-based n... by ben_w on Saturday August 12, 2023 @07:42PM (#37105215)
The people making these aren't any good at building houses.

The lack of housing is, IMO, a failure of government — material costs for homes are surprisingly low compared to everything else — but even then, housing policy is a different department to the space stuff.

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Re:US Government is taking serious step toward space-based n... by FirmwareBurner on Saturday August 12, 2023 @08:00PM (#37105290)
>The lack of housing is, IMO, a failure of government

Lack of housing is a "feature", not a bug, as it enriches the housing owning class and makes it more difficult for "undesirable" people to move in with NIMBYs.

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Re:US Government is taking serious step toward space-based n... by ben_w on Sunday August 13, 2023 @05:09AM (#37108078)
That's still a failure. Bad Nash equilibriums are still bad.
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Re:US Government is taking serious step toward space-based n... by FirmwareBurner on Sunday August 13, 2023 @07:17AM (#37108830)
Not for the wealthy. It will only be a failure when the poor start eating the rich, but we're far away from that.
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Re:US Government is taking serious step toward space-based n... by deprecative on Sunday August 13, 2023 @03:02AM (#37107365)
Then take some from the bombs used to kill people. It's a false dichotomy to say if we spend anything on space we can't spend anything on problems on Earth.
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Re:US Government is taking serious step toward space-based n... by jeltz on Sunday August 13, 2023 @03:43AM (#37107597)
That is not a budget issue. We could fix that if we want to, people just do not want to.
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