warwick business school. is it viable, do you think, as much as air travel currently is? yes, definitely. in 2020, the global space industry was 447 billion. 80% of that was commercial space. billion. 80% of that was commercialspace. so billion. 80% of that was commercial space. so yes it is viable. it commercial space. so yes it is viable. , viable. it isn t the most environmentally - viable. it isn t the most i environmentally friendly, considering the other things we have been talking about in the last hour or so. air travel is quite polluting but space travel presumably even more so? not for decades. records show that co2 emissions from space launches are 1/40 thousand compared to aviation emissions. for now, it is very tiny. the other .2 is that we are already seeing commercial companies wishing to put satellites into space. do you
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his analysis. this is not a good way to cut government spending. we need to restrain government spending. we need to not do it across the board. but this is the only tool the administration was willing to give us. and they are not willing to negotiate over smart cuts to the budget. all they want is more money to spend. better toe have some small cut 2.4% of the entire budget than to have no cuts at all. bill: all right. and the republican party simply cannot cave again or you don t have a republican party. this is is the line they can t cross; is that correct? i think that s right. but i do think the republicans ought to go on the offense. realize. this after the sequestration cuts. after the automatic across the board cuts the federal government will be spending $3.554 trillion. more than being spend last year. last year was 3,538; 3% increase in spending. since 2009, the budget is up $447 billion a year.