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Thirty years is a lot of space to lose big by underinvestment into manned.  Like two world wars can easily fit in.


It was obvious after American civil war that guns>swords. It didn't prevent Mars-la-Tour to decide fate of France(and arguably launch the whole endless disaster of XXth century), courtesy of Prussian cuirassiers doing their job the same way it was done for last 30 centuries.


And now we don't even have a single LW yet(the closest thing to one "rebelled" during operational test just a couple months ago)


Future will happen at an appropriate moment, but no need to go full Musk. Not because he's necessary wrong. But his ideas are very risky, and one doesn't risk the fate of the nation easily.


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