"Wdtabor" wrote in message
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You ever use a GPS? Get a weather report? Make a long distance call? Watch
TV?


Yup, all of the above. But who are we trading with in space?



Do you think anyone anticipated they would use those services when we
navigated
with sextants?


No. But who are we trading with in space? What does anything that you
listed have to do with establishing a base on the moon or going to mars?