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Old 30-07-2011, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by renormalised View Post
At the rate things are going, we won't be seeing anything like the spacedock for many, many years. Probably even well after the time of "Star Trek". We won't be able to build anything like that until we have major industrialisation in space, plus a few technological breakthroughs to support building and running a station like this.
People were dreaming of flying and going to the moon long before anyone seriously thought it a viable proposition. We are in a similar situation, but that's no reason to stop trying.
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