Posted on 05/31/2018 6:18:50 PM PDT by ETL
Throughout our history, America has been shaped by entrepreneurial risk takers who were focused on innovation – and on doing and making things better and cheaper.
Along the way, government has traditionally helped by not getting in the way of the inventors and entrepreneurs – and making sure they had a fair commercial playing field to try out their ideas. This is one reason why the rise of Bernie Sanders-style socialism is alarming – it is the opposite of historic American inventiveness, creativity and progress.
Today this tradition of aggressive entrepreneurs is taking on new life in working to get Americans into space, something I discuss in my new book, “Trump’s America.”
While government wants to occasionally send highly trained astronauts on relatively brief missions, the new space entrepreneurs want to send thousands of people into space. They represent the democratization of space – just as the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford represented the democratization of air and land travel.
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Can someone photo shop Newt and Pelosi on the couch in the foreground
I hope America singlehandedly in this arena. Not the Chinese. Nor the Russians.
That America singlehandedly leads* I mean.
LEAVE the government out. What happens when another nation assaults one of our space vehicles?
Call the cavalry.
In the old West, the government didn’t build the mines, the saloons, the banks nor the railroads. People did.
They also elected their own lawmen. Space settlers could do the same if there’s local criminals and ne’er-do-goods about..
However, if the old West folks were attacked by a hostile nation of savages, for example, the cavalry was there.
That’s the role for the US government. Not settlement, but rather defense of the settlers.
It is amazing what the private sector has accomplished in space the last few years.
Shows the power of free enterprise and property rights.
Unless he is talking about “Electro-Grativics” then it is just gonna be another government funded boondoggle...
I am a retired aerospace engineer.
In my last year, 1999, with the giant aerospace company (now the biggest one, I think), I put into the Long Range Plan a proposal that we build capsules that could take anyone, an entrepreneur, country, corporation, or whoever, to near Earth asteroids for prospecting and claiming them.
The top management did not throw me out of the room.
Later, one of my colleagues told me that half of the execs thought I was in left field; half thought I was visionary. I was thrilled. HALF liked it.
FR Brethren, the Solar System is the New World without the pesky natives. We KNOW that there are untold mineral riches out there.
Why will people go to the High Frontier? The same reasons they went to the New World, power, wealth, and freedom.
In space there are unlimited resources that no one owns, unlimited power (solar and nuke if you prefer), and unlimited space to expand.
Unlimited freedom!
Newt is a history professor. He understands what is happening.
The fedgov needs to encourage and protect the entrepreneurs that will make this happen.
I don’t think SpaceX will save humanity nor do I have any interest in heading to space. Perfectly content living out the days God has alotted to me on this green earth of His.
That being said, in terms of space exploration/tech innovation as a whole, I want America to have a comfortable lead.
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