See that little blue world in the picture in reply 2? That’s our basket and all of our eggs are in it unless we figure out how to get off of the planet.
Velcro alone made it worth the money.
In the same vein as the last question, looking back at your three and a half decades in SF, what are you most proud of having gotten right? What do you feel you got most spectacularly wrong, by way of failure to predict or just plain being wrong?
We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built. We'd have most of what we predicted of the conquest of space, if we hadn't ignored parasite control. The wealth (as in flying cars) predicted by Heinlein and his followers (including myself) was another matter. It all went to welfare programs.
Vast numbers of people are microscopically better off for that, except that we all have less to aspire to.
Here is where the predictions failed: We didn't take Cargo Cult mentality into account [that being] "if somebody has something I don't, he must have stolen it."
We didn't understand how good we could get at communication -- when you have something that someone else doesn't, the whole damn planet knows it. But the space defense initiative drove the USSR bankrupt, and it originated at my house in Tarzana.
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I suppose if you live in a desert with few water resources, this may seem like an important technology. There are many things to criticize about NASA, but a former Mayor of Norwalk is not someone I would take seriously.
What does that clown think food stamps and the NBA are?
What a short sighted fool.
Proof anyone can use a keyboard.
The nations that lead on the frontiers, dictate the course of human history.
This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity. We have reached for the stars... And you refuse celebrate? To hell with you! To hell with you!
LOL! Yeah, if we just spend NASA’s 15 billion a year on more government programs it will solve all of societies problems.
Because it’s that last 15 that will do it, the ignorance is stunning........
How about if we spend 2-3 trillion on the space program so those idiots in congress can’t put it to other nefarious purposes?
Someone noticed that the emperor is buck neckid. ;)
some of the most amazing sounds I’ve ever heard, thanks to roving satellites capable of seeing and hearing RF/IRF, were of planets singing, each their own unique “tune”.
I vote NASA stays, if nothing else than for the ‘wow’ factor.
related:
Time To Raise The Warning Flag On US Space Program
Spacedaily.com | Dec 29, 2008 | Staff Writers, Houston TX (SPX)
Posted on 12/29/2008 11:02:22 PM PST by tricky_k_1972
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156004/posts
I’d rather put money into NASA than AIG, all the deadbeat banks combined, and the security of Bernie Madoff.
Hi Kevin. Stupid article, but nice thread, thanks.
The Chinese are going to space whether we do or not (as even the author points out), which means they may have an opportunity to militarily dominate us. On that level alone abandoning our space program is probably a non starter. If Obama drops the ball, the next guy will probably have to pick it up.
There are untold amounts of wealth in space, but also untold dangers to earth. We don’t really have a choice in whether we stay or go. We have to go and the sooner the better.