His space company Blue Origin hopes its venture will replace the International Space Station.

Replacing an international publicly-funded institution for the advancement of science with pods for Silicon Valley psychos to do coke and jack off in. We are in the bad timeline.

  • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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    3 years ago

    The fun part about all of these short sighted uncoordinated private space venture is that a single disaster have the potential to start a catastrophic chain reaction that'll destroy everything in orbit and locks humanity away from space for centuries.

      • spectre [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Ideally none of this would be necessary and the ISS could have been placed in an orbit high enough that it would stay up for decades without boosts and other precautions, but the ISS had to be placed into an orbit reachable by both Soyuz and the space shuttle. Neither of those are/were capable of going much higher in altitude.

        I'd thought it would be ideal beyond technical limitations since the trade-off for the occasional boost is that it is *much * easier to reach the ISS in LEO.