wow, Apollo was a government initiative. That’s irrelevant as today’s government agencies and the cronies who run them lack incentive and ingenuity. Free market isn’t a fantasy and only entrepreneurs can step in where they continually FAIL.
Musk, Diamondis, and many others are at the very least thinking big where the stooges cannot. If they don’t eventually get to Mars, so what? All of the new technology and intellectual capital gained can be utilized in other ways.
If you hate Rand so, much try Marx, I think you’ll be happier.
This is true. So you see, it's not some magical "free market" that makes thing happen, it's human ingenuity. Without it, things don't happen. Free market or no free market.
If you hate Rand so, much try Marx, I think you’ll be happier.
Rand, Marx, Ragnar Redbeard, Anton LaVey... all from the same bucket of philosophical sh*t.
This debate about Apollo is missing Alternative 3.
The public face of NASA, including Apollo, is a cover story to hide a secret military space program.
Ditto for the “race to Mars”.
Wake up and smell the coffee, people.
Arguing ideology and policy is for ivory tower professors—I expect to see a little “street smarts” here in FR.