No, the correct question is not is this vital to us.
The world is not so simple, black and white.
It takes a more mature analysis, one that considers the marginal value versus the marginal cost, is it worth a rocket launch to conduct scientific research analyzing this or that?
Is it vital that we have an internet? Well, there's definitely a marginal gain to having it, and a marginal cost.
So it's just silly to talk about vitality when looking at the tremendous engineering advancement that results in the opportunity for such a launch cadence.
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