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The_Idiot

It's more sensible...

... right up until the time you, um, don't do it.

In fifty years we haven't, to my mind, made even one small step towards building and orbiting the type of infrastructure needed for such an exercise. Yes, we've (for some arbitrary value of 'we') put up a small room where people can take pictures, play the guitar (no insult intended to any specific photographers or musicians), and carry out small lab experiments. And we've done it while budgets are cut, funding withdrawn, and the chances of building an orbital construction center, or even an orbital parking lot, seem to disappear into the distance (if they were ever more than a mirage).

The politicians don't care. The public don't care. And even if engineers care, most of them not called Elon are broke and not listened to.

Or at least that's my view. Of course, I'm an Idiot...

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