Technically, slavery is legal as long as the person has been convicted of a crime and it is deemed as the punishment.
So explain why so many criminals are sitting around all day watching TV instead of planting/harvesting corn for my e85 vehicle.
Only if the enemy is hiding in a trawler.
...or McDonalds.
This is just insane. Going to 50 miles, or 62 miles, or even 200 miles straight up is utterly pointless. It does not advance us at all.
You realize that the original roller coasters were wood, didn't go very far or fast. Now we have death pendulums and vommit ridden corkscrews.
Advancement into space is just like smart phones. Someone has to pave the road for that bleeding edge tech to do things we couldn't do before.
Don't complain that these front runners get bragging rights to almost space, because soon you and I will be able to go all the way into actual space for far less.
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