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In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.
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- Motivation
- Commitment
- Adventure
- Loss
- Talent
- Science Fiction
- Ideology
- Space Travel
- Surviving
- Relative
- Direct
- Comparison
- Dispassionate
- Values
- Earth
- The End Of The Day
- Science Fiction Movie
- Billions
- Continuing
- Ends
- Fiction
- Human Life
- Humans
- Numbers
- Six
- Spaceflight
- Tiny
- Vicarious
- Asks
- Huge
- Participants
- Robotics
- Relative Value
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