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		terminalshort 85 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FAA to restrict commercial rocket launches to over... There are only 35,000 commercial planes on Earth. Even if installing costs $1 million per plane, that's only $35 billion.

rogerrogerr 84 days ago [–]

The US has about 200,000 general aviation planes. You can’t ignore them, and you can’t just ban GA because that’s your pipeline for getting commercial pilots.

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