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Ret. General Robert Spalding: Moon Landing Couldn’t Happen in Today’s Deindustrialized America
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| July 20,2019
| ROBERT KRAYCHIK
Posted on 07/20/2019 11:38:03 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk
Except of course he’s completely completely full of crap. We still make lots of stuff here. We’ve got like 100 automotive factories alone.
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07/20/2019 4:22:30 PM PDT
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discostu
(I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
To: Hugh the Scot
Walk out your door and you can breathe. Thats not much of an artificial environment.
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posted on
07/20/2019 4:33:24 PM PDT
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Alberta's Child
("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
To: Alberta's Child
I suppose it matters where your door is.
There’s nothing natural about concrete sidewalks and asphalt streets... The fact that you are walking out a door at all makes your environment artificial. It’s a difference of degrees.
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posted on
07/20/2019 6:03:31 PM PDT
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Hugh the Scot
(I won`t be wronged. I won`t be insulted. I won`t be laid a hand on. - John Bernard Books)
To: discostu
Except of course hes completely completely full of crap.
Yep...I work in manufacturing...aerospace...we are more than capable.
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posted on
07/20/2019 6:16:40 PM PDT
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rottndog
('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
To: dp0622
Remember, youre fighting for this womans honor, which is probably more than she ever did
‘that woman is my wife; you should be ashamed...
if that woman is your wife, you should be ashamed...’
To: Hojczyk
Clinton. Bush. Obama. Traitors and criminals, all.
To: IrishBrigade
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posted on
07/21/2019 12:54:16 AM PDT
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dp0622
(Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
To: Alberta's Child
It was an enormously expensive undertaking
"Enormously expensive" is a relative term.
The entire Apollo program from 1960 to 1973 cost $28 billion.
Meanwhile, the US spent $28 billion every 3 months in 1969 for social welfare programs.
Let's let that sink for a moment - one of the greatest achievements in man's history, an achievement that continues to have a profound impact on our current-day technology and which inspired untold numbers of children to become interested in science and engineering, cost as much as three months of social welfare programs, many of which were misguided or counter-productive, a few of which actively helped break up families and destroyed communities.
Apollo was an enormous bargain, if what we're focusing on is monetary cost. There are arguments to be made that space exploration should be privatized - I agree, but there is a national security component to space exploration and settlement which means the US government must remain involved and active with its own programs. There are also arguments to be made that robotics and automated exploration should lead the way - again, I agree completely that AI can and should be used, but in the short term it's insufficient. In the long-term, I don't think we want to become a nation of bloggers looking up occasionally to see Mars Rover-quality pictures from the surface of Mars, where the Chinese and others will be setting up manned bases.
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