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MrPapz ◴[] No.43714597[source]
Maybe now we can stop this nonsense of competing among each other and start dedicating efforts to an international space program.
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Guthur ◴[] No.43714677[source]
Why exactly? I'd prefer we'd just build some more houses so that owning one didn't require a life time of work to pay for.
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1. acdha ◴[] No.43716170[source]
Housing prices have almost nothing to do with space programs. In most places, they’re an artifact of laws and policies which create scarcity for the benefit of rich property owners, and cutting scientific research entirely won’t change that except in a few cases where you’d be able to bid on a house which some unemployed scientist or engineer is forced out of - but the private equity guys will probably outbid you.