At $10,00 a pound, subsidized, I don't think "cheap" covers it, either.
I would use a Zappa expression: it's bogus pomp.
Zero Powers wrote:
>
> >From: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
>
> >Mir, SchMir. ISS, SchmISS.
> >
> >We're still not a spacefaring species. I would put the watershed at
> >having autonomous/sustainable settlements outside of Earth's gravity
> >well. We're still decades away from that. Everything else is cheap PR.
>
> Yeah, sure. *You* spend 4 months isolated in a zero g evironment hundreds
> of miles above the Earth and then come back and tell us how its all nothing
> but cheap PR.
>
> -Zero
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