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This shit honestly scares me because the US does constant predictable partisan swings (No, your party is not going to hold the majority forever because the other party is retarded, we have literally had this conversation twenty times) and the next partisan swing is going to see all of the "Wealthy, educated, correct-thinking people" just flat out vote to ban space travel. The simplest way will be to treat it like a machine gun license, set the FAA up so that no one will ever be allowed to launch a rocket in the US again except for ULA once every 24 months. Pat each other on the back on how safe and professional that is, and how much funding can be redirected to social spending, because as Bernie Sanders said on his campaign site, "We should worry about fixing the problems on earth before we start messing around in space again"

>>507992749
The Horus Niggardry destroyed much of mankind's technology, much lost, never to be relearned.