The Barge has it's uses. Mass storage can be useful for a concentrated mining operation - Fill a barge. Then empty it with an equally concentrated hauling operation. A secondary purpose is roleplay... it can carry immense cargo's, so to start a fledgeling colony, or start construction of a base (wether external or internal), I imagine a barge could be useful.
Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.
Mostly retired Discovery member. May still visit from time to time.