re: #86 Nojay UK

Good points.

Dragon exists so the world doesn’t have to rely on Russia to get people to and fro LEO.

And the only reason people are in LEO is because of the old (yes, it’s getting rather old) ISS, itself constructed not because of Dragon but by the older launch systems.

I am one of those skeptical that we ought to continue human spaceflight.

It’s very low return for the cost.

It feeds a fantasy about the future, that somehow our species future is in space.

We are land animals. Hell, we even gave up trees a few million years back. We’ve never settled underwater.

Ok, call me a curmudgeon or worse.

But I want a better life for our future. Satellites and space exploration are wonderful. That’s why we build robots.

Robots are good.

Let them conquer planets.