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In the 90s up to the early 2000s we had TV shows set in space! Multiple Star Treks, Babylon 5, Space: Above & Beyond, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, and Firefly!

Ever since Battlestar Galactica ended it seems like space hasn't been as big in our culture as it was in the 90s!

What happened?

Was it the recession? After all there was no money for the space shuttle!

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26 minutes ago, CaptainJohnJSheridan said:

In the 90s up to the early 2000s we had TV shows set in space! Multiple Star Treks, Babylon 5, Space: Above & Beyond, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, and Firefly!

Ever since Battlestar Galactica ended it seems like space hasn't been as big in our culture as it was in the 90s!

What happened?

Was it the recession? After all there was no money for the space shuttle!

Because bears beat Battlestar Galactica

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23 minutes ago, MWil23 said:

We know more about space than our own oceans. That’s crazy.

People say this and it horrifies me.

We've explored maybe 5% of our oceans.

We've explored 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000infinity1 of space honestly this forum doesn't have the server space for the amount of zeroes you'd need.

We know more about the oceans than we do space. 

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6 minutes ago, SwoleXmad said:

People say this and it horrifies me.

We've explored maybe 5% of our oceans.

We've explored 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000infinity1 of space honestly this forum doesn't have the server space for the amount of zeroes you'd need.

We know more about the oceans than we do space. 

OK then, I'll amend my comment:

We know marginally more about our own oceans, impacting us much more on a daily basis on our own planet, than we do about space, which we've spent more and a significantly greater proportion amount on since the Cold War Space Race era of the Kennedy administration. 

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