Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Systems and Process Automation. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
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Oct2022-Nov2024 davoloid@qoto.org (old toots there for now)
@troyunrau @llamacoffee It was cool, but that was it’s downfall. Apollo took every bit of technical resource, which might have otherwise gone into a more natural growth of activity in space. (Which is what we’re seeing now).
So when someone showed a cool space plane, regardless of the costs, practicality and viability, that pattern of political expediency was already set.