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Spacecraft Returns Seven Particles From Birth of the Solar System
“After a massive, years-long search, researchers have recovered seven interstellar dust particles returned to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft.” Fascinating. But hardly a justification for stealing more money to support NASA.
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Are we ready for the commercial exploitation of space exploration yet? It is nice to dream about how NASA research benefits humanity in some abstract way, but really, we need to see people actually *GO*, and permanently settle the new frontiers.
And it would be nice if those settlers did not owe some debt of allegiance that makes them do stupid things contrary to their own interests.