Even if you think Space travel is worth the money (which I personally do), adding humans to the mix makes projects incredibly more expensive. Even in the realm of space travel and research, sending humans is a questionable use of the money.

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post-it 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Sports would also be much cheaper without humans.

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zarzavat 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The most important (if not entertaining) things you can do in space don't involve humans. Telescopes, communications, earth observation, sending probes to distant bodies, etc.

It's nice that we can send humans to space and it's good to keep that capability going so that the knowledge doesn't die. But the unmanned missions tend to pull the weight of actually accomplishing useful things. Humans just get in the way.

	▲	pigpop an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Most people don't find those things interesting unless people are directly involved in them.

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wat10000 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Turns out I don't understand the point sports either.