I've said it before and I'll say it again, the invocation of the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Program as prototypes for some kind of miraculous effort at extracation from this predicament are unfounded.
These programs represented profilgate EXPENDITURES of energy and resources for the achievement of focused goals. They were the very epitome of the "expense be damned" philosophy, and are "180 degrees out of phase" with the realities of the situation we are now faced with.
Amen, brother, you are exactly correct. Both occurred in a crisis period where the nation felt imperiled by a major adversary, a condition not true for today. Now if we could just get that 'cold fusion' thingy to work!
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the invocation of the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Program as prototypes for some kind of miraculous effort at extracation from this predicament are unfounded.”
Amen