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sure to rate if you haven't already. But onto this week's question that comes to you from

DePauligNack. That's definitely my worst pronunciation of any of these I've ever done, but we're

going to keep going forward. So DePauligNack says, niche issue here, but I'd like to know what is

the populous case for American space exploration with billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos taking

the onus from NASA. How does that fit into the appeal to the working class American? What do you

think, Saadur? First thing I would say is that first of all, there's going to have to just be a

populous case for everything. You know, sometimes there can just be a good case for something. And

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