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Leave Outer Space to the Millionaires

Posted by michael on from the sit-back-and-have-another-beer dept.

tcd004 writes "Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal has an interesting article in Foreign Policy arguing that the future of manned space travel should be left to wealthy adventurers. He points to the fact that modern state-funded space disasters become national traumas, and argues that that gung-ho millionaires are more free to take risks because they 'don't represent a nation; [they] represent humanity.'"

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fuck all you niggers! you fail it! suck my cock and fucking like it!

  2. In space... by zedmelon · · Score: -1, Troll

    no one can hear you scream I was here before YOU were! I'm telling MOM!

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  3. Re:Uh-huh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I guess you haven't watched the English language over the last 30 years. We still use the same dictionaries.

    buracracy = bureaucracy
    millionars= millionaires
    space craft = spacecraft
    practicle = practical

    truly a painful thing to watch the english language devolve online.

  4. Re:If we're using trauma as a reason... by AvengerXP · · Score: 0, Troll

    If everyone were as well equiped as Xanathos from Gargoyles, i'd tend to agree. Go super power armors!

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  5. Re:Represent humanity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Start here.