No they're right since that's the truth. And investors can pull the plug any second, is the reality of it.

Wonder how much the controlling stake would be worth in case they still go bankrupt? is their tech and know-how still worth at least ~100m? or is having your own rocket-company just like a status-symbol in the current space-race?

> blatant click-bait magazine article

This magazine is quite respected and has published articles by more than 150 Nobel Prize-winning scientists. It's as good as it gets.

Shut up scientists, there's profits to be made. And all those denying it either don't know how bad it will get or worse.

In the future constellations will be millions of satellites, not just a few thousand like there are now. Every country will want their own for security reasons.

This thing was like half a meter big at most and most of it burnt up. We are not launching anything to space to find these, and we'll probably never will. Media trying to sensationalise some tiny meteorites again lately.

No it will not stop, but it has always slowed down a lot any time fatalities happened.

I don't think history would've changed much. Nuclear energy and reactions have never stopped being researched. If anything amazing and useful to space travel had come along it would've certainly been implemented.

The fact is also that we can reach pretty much anything in the Solar system with normal propulsion anyway + non-human crafts and probes can be smaller and smaller.

We can, but it's also everywhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background

Here's the big one: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/044/01GG7S6F5V52E5F489R72X7ZNE

The US has only recognised communist China since 1978 so I assume they considered this the Chinese flag at the time.