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the reason why space exploration is on hiatus is it's too damn expensive & the trade -off benefits aren't considered viable (you know with all these defense budgets to keep up so that crooks can steal from them)
space exploration is the future, but there are too many problems here on terra firma...
on a related note, (not space travel though)
concorde sst almost bankrupted england & france
what caused punk more than perhaps anything else?
the fucking concorde, man...the depressed economic conditions that were a direct causal result
concorde still rules though ...technology way before its time & the closest we'll ever get to a time machine, by the way
only one crash (in '98 methinks)
it was due to a small, stray piece of metal on the runway that sheared a wheel causing a spark to ignite a fuel tank...they corrected the problem with extra insulation...they" being the world's foremost engineers---bar fucking none. concorde finally flew again on none other than the fateful day of september eleventh two thousand and one. the us was always jealous of the technology. then, the sst was grounded in '03 due to budget problems finally reaching a fatal breaking point. only like eleven of them were ever made. it's sad that the most sophisticated technology on the planet (which was invented in the late sixties/early seventies by the way --- we've been super-slack since then as a species) is now no longer in use!
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The Concorde is just too expensive to service. And it's not because it's a problematic machine that breaks down a lot. It doesn't. Building them is, or course, ultra-expensive.
And the maintenance has to be done by engineers that are so brilliant that it costs way too much money to keep them on the payroll.
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