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Yes, a massive commitment.
 
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Yes, larger commitment but no "moon shots."
 
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Yes, existing commitment.
 
#4
No.
 
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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
Ernest
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« on: March 20, 2016, 12:02:11 AM »

If by public, you mean government, and if by space exploration, you mean manned space missions, then no.  As far as actual useful science, then for the foreseeable future we get more bang from the buck from unmanned missions.  While it would be nice to put a self-sustaining colony on Mars, I don't see the political will existing to do that.  (Especially not in the most cost effective way as it would require accepting a Mars with a radically different social structure.)
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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
Ernest
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« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2016, 08:35:15 PM »

If you want a practical reason to support public space exploration, it's a way of keeping defense contractors and the people who work for them satisfied, busy, and prepared to mobilize for an actual war without doing anything actively harmful (e.g. spending/contracting/national defense disasters like the B-2, F-22, or Zumwalt).

Not really.  There's very little commonality there, even on the rocket side of the space program.
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