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sigstoat on May 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive fr...

> Just watch Prometheus

or watch some movie with lots of space stations where things are great, and draw the opposite conclusion!

fiction isn't evidence of anything.

patagonia on May 13, 2019 [–]

Fair enough. Watch the news. We can’t engineer complex systems without loads of issues. iPhone. The shuttle. Tax code. So, what makes you think we’re gonna nail it when we build one of these???

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