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I would question the double standard-ness of anyone objecting to military space launches.

GPS, for example, is a DoD program, operated by the USAF. Are they going to stop using GPS in protest?

You're wrongly assuming that the military is the only organization that could have implemented GPS, when in fact any organization (e.g. NASA) could have if they had the same ridiculously high funding as the US military.

You're wrongfully assuming that any other organization would've had the foresight to develop such a program back in the late 1950s, if they were given the budget. NASA wasn't established until 1958.

Who cares if it was a few years earlier? With technological progress we are able to innovate at an exponential rate. If imagine where we'd be if NASA was funded an amount as absurd as the military industrial complex.

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