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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by rms on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:47PM (#428469)
Cut the US defense budget in half and we'd have 10,000 people on Mars in 20 years. It's an issue of priorities.
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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by eru on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:51PM (#428474)
Either by using that money to lowering taxes or finance NASA.
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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by TomOfTTB on Saturday January 10, 2009 @06:42PM (#428541)
Your both probably right but priorities come from Public Sentiment more than anything else. So it's as much the fault of people not talking about it (which I'm guilty of) as it is the fault of anything else.
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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by ivankirigin on Saturday January 10, 2009 @06:26PM (#428522)
Giving billions from one government agency to another doesn't sound like it would create real innovation to me.
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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by gravitycop on Saturday January 10, 2009 @06:29PM (#428526)
Is innovation needed, in order to colonize Earth orbit?

http://www.dunnspace.com/leo_on_the_cheap.htm

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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by ivankirigin on Saturday January 10, 2009 @11:53PM (#428803)
I don't believe governments have what it takes to make any good, big idea in space viable. We're biased towards believing that because of the space race, but I don't think it will ever happen again.

So even if something isn't new tech, the innovation will be the group doing it. I'm really excited about the private efforts today.

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