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I think Alex has the right idea. Commercial spaceflight is only barely beyond infancy, somewhat like a toddler.
What did we toddlers do when we got our first crayons? Did you draw neatly in a scrapbook? No, we probably drew all over the walls... Why? Because we could.
There will be to-ing and fro-ing between various powers before this settles down. Somewhere in a boardroom, is some marketing type who think's he/she have brought on the next big thing. We think otherwise.
As Alex pointed out, it's an opportunity to draw attention to bigger things. The welfare of a few astro nerds probably ranks 18,000th on the public list, between blue budgie fanciers, and Nepalese stamp collectors.
If we can draw attention to it in ways that rank higher, our ends may still be met by proxy.
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