/Space Exploration general/

Remember the optimism of 90's where they imagined the future of space stations and asteroid mining?
What happened to it? Why is ISS planned to deorbit?
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/8514/why-is-nasa-planning-to-deorbit-the-iss-instead-of-reusing-its-newer-modules-li

Non-chemical propulsion seems so silent.
What happened to that microwave engine?
https://www.space.com/26713-impossible-space-engine-nasa-test.html

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Putin and China have happened.

>>2
Putin paid gay russian hookers to shove sausages deeply inside of his ass
he is not fit to rule, and China created the corona virus.
The evils will not cease

USA has to nurse its ape population, that's where the brainpower is atm.