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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/AGK3XCQUQ4SFBTQVRV7FMH4X467ZXM2E/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "AGK3XCQUQ4SFBTQVRV7FMH4X467ZXM2E", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/N6TZD7HTUJ4A3PFRSUTYN7C627GJ5SET/", "sender": { "address": "karn (a) philkarn.net", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Phil Karn", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: A rose is a rose... is a rose", "date": "2011-08-13T21:46:58Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/PBST6ITUV4RZ4RUXCBCSFPOVNVNW2RZO/", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/OJRCN6AARMQUREO3CBBCGBQJYDOVBWTO/" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "On 8/9/11 4:47 PM, Gregg Wonderly wrote:\n\n> But, if no one who \"has the money\" wants to fund \"space flight\", then it won't \n> ever happen privately. I.e. why hasn't the privetization already happened? I \n> think it's because it doesn't \"make money\". There's nothing \"known\" to generate \n> value out of space \"flight\".\n\nActually, there's one space application that has proved quite\ncommercially viable: communications. Commercial earth resources\nsatellites are a distant second. I can't think of anything else.\n\nExploration for its own sake is never going to be commercially viable.\nThere has to be some short-term economic payoff. There's a long history\nof those who have become rich in some other industry funding an earth\nexpedition out of personal interest, but the cost of space flight is\nstill far too high for this to extend to space. It means that the\nfunding of space exploration will have to remain the province of\ngovernments for the time being. There's just no payoff for commercial\ninvestment, at least not yet.\n\n-Phil\n", "attachments": [] }