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TIL Canada is building a space port in Nova Scotia (www.maritimelaunch.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Quilotoa to c/til

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Construction began in 2022. It plans to launch satellites.

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[–] Quilotoa 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Although I suspect we are importing U.S. technology and brains to do this.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Short term imports for long term self-reliance sounds like the right way to go to me

[–] Sturgist 6 points 3 days ago

@[email protected]

Exactly. It's like when the US took all the Nazi scientists. Except that it's pre-ww3.....so I guess it's more like when the US took all the German Jewish scientists before everyone else decided maybe letting the Nazis take all of Europe and slaughter millions of people was maybe a bad thing?