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Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crashes
Fallen Kell writes: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has crashed. "'During the test. the vehicle suffered a serious anomaly resulting in the loss of the vehicle,' the company said in a statement. "The WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft landed safely. Our first concern is the status of the pilots, which is unknown at this time.'""
ABC says one person is dead, and another injured. This was the craft's fourth powered test flight, and its first since January.
No offense, but "the goal" was achieved decades ago. These people died for the profit of shareholders, not some "goal" of space flight which has been going on for half a century.
The guys (and woman) who died in Challenger were heroes. The casualties from this crash were like the people who died building the Empire State Building.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Commercial manned spaceflights add nothing here. The ultimate goal being profit for shareholders and find a new way to waste money for the wealthier in exchange of something nobody else can buy, do. But at the end, it does not contribute anything to make this planet better. No, colonisation of space is not an option, neither a feasible at all anyway. The amount of resources needed to do colonisation on a scale large enough to make it viable provided the rest of the story is possible (I mean, autonomous life on Mars or travelling to other stellar systems), are just too large it would be unethical to deprive the humanity from it for the stake of a few. No, I am not ready to die for my neighbor to live in space or elsewhere.
Achille Talon
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Commercializing space flight is a good thing?
Explain why. Be very detailed, because I'm sure a lot of us would like to know how it is beneficial to spend so much resources just so that a few rich folks can have a better view than the rest of us when flying.