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Yeah as if Earth doesn't have any other problems right now than putting million of super-rich people into space lol. What a stupid waste of time and resources. Maybe there should be some laws indeed for Earth orbit, for instance, banning densely populated, orbiting space craft, for starters. Or fixing or problems on Earth before spending hundreds of billions on useless space projects. We might not be around long enough to populate space otherwise. Now is not the time...

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Ban stuff because.... well, because bah humbug. Humanity can apparently only do one thing at a time. Also you get to decide what people should or shouldn't be allowed to do, and when. Nice.

Interesting comment. So your style of commenting consists of creating arbitrary statements that were not present in other people's comments, ignoring the valid claims they had and sprinkling it with a touch of stupidity of your own?

Anyone who thinks populating space and space governance at this point in time should be a priority, obviously has no idea about where our planet is heading right now. And judging by the utter uselessness of space exploration at this point in time, it's not too hard to realize that these billions spent for landing even just a rover on Mars, would be better invested in any other project that improves the place where we actually live...

You're doing the same silly thinking. Want to 'save the earth's, why not divert the trillions and trillions we waste on military spending? The billions we spend in space have and will pay off a thousand fold.

Yesterday is the time. I keep seeing these 'we must do X here first' posts and they are all built on the same bad lines of thinking. We are never going to solve our problems here on earth sufficiently, that's just how the human condition works. That said as we find new challenges we are great at creating solutions. Trying to say space is a waste of resources is silly, when space is filled with them, and you dont have to worry about many kind of pollution in space. Millions of metric tons of heavy metals that require huge amounts of ecological damage to mine on earth could be refined in space and dropped on earth for example.

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