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Re:Starship made it through re-entry, did its first ever lan... by hot_gril on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:03PM (#40602878)
We also won't be ready for the sci-fi-style space age in real life unless there's a use case for it. Imagine Star Wars except there's no life on any reachable planets, what would they even do with their spaceships?

And Star Trek doesn't have "good old rust-bucket" ships in it, but the whole premise of it is that they found a way to move faster than the speed of light.

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Re:Starship made it through re-entry, did its first ever lan... by RecycledEle on Thursday June 06, 2024 @11:18PM (#40604977)
> a use case for it

Here are a few likely use cases: * in-space science * in-space R&D * in-space industry * mining small rocks (asteroids) in space * space-based power * military applications

Long-term, we may see terraforming planets and minor planets.

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