Yes, indeed. But since they are so well hidden behind the government, we need to address the monster we can see rather than the monster we can't. It would be true to say that the elite do not want their menials to escape into space, but that gives us no plan of action.
But who am I kidding? There *is* no plan of action possible. Very few men of wealth are interested in dumping the huge amounts of money necessary to get into space, and even in they were, such an enterprise is by its own nature very succeptable to...accidents; very expensive accidents.
Bill Gates found out what happens when you don't play by the rules. Imagine what'd happen to a mogul trying to get into space?
Some people reading this might think I'm a tin-foil hat wearer. To them I say this: We went to the Moon over 25 years ago and, since those days, haven't been there since. We never followed up on it. Funding for alternative energy sources are almost non-existant. NASA is a joke (just ask old NASA hands). No corperation is showing any interest in space travel. How can there on one hand be so much interest in space and on the other be so little actual involvement in it? Why does the US keep their main spaceport at such a meteorologically unstable area?
Truly, I *want* us to be in Space. I would love to go to space. I would love to see the US launching vehicles up so frequently that it isn't hardly news anymore...that it isn't special or amazing to have another launch. That we have *several* orbiting stations. That we are making strides in overcoming the limitations of gravity in order to make long-term space travel a reality (necessary due to the effects of weightlessness on bones).
I think we *could* make it into space if the US really wanted to try...or would allow private individuals and corperations to try, but they wont. Instead, NASA will continue to waste time, money, energy, and prestige on elephants like the ISS where we had SpaceLab in orbit 25 years ago...at a fraction the cost.
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