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You’re certainly right about the spending drop in the bucket. But overall I still think it’s probably a waste. If the objective is some kind of human landing or achieving a base on Mars, isn’t this pointless? NASA has concluded that Mars can’t be terraformed. And why send a few human beings to a desolate rock? That said, I deeply believe in space exploration. In fact, I’d pour a lot more money into it. But rockets aren’t the answer. They can’t take us to anyplace worth going to. We ought to begin working on the science and technology that might do that, taking us to other star s...

From Prime to Kindle: 26 Years of Amazon History By Andrew Lisa, Stacker News On 2/18/21 at 8:00 PM EST Nearly 50 cents out of every retail dollar Americans spend online now go to Amazon—the company commanded 47 percent of the retail e-commerce market share in 2020, and that number is expected to reach fully 50 percent in 2021. While the COVID-19 pandemic decimated many retailers big and small, Amazon has thrived, capturing much of the lucrative online and delivery markets, with the company accounting for nearly one-third of all e-commerce sales in the United States in 2020. To handle th...