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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
If space exploration will bring back our heavy industry and manufacturing sectors, reverse the trend of economic globalization, re-invigorate the dollar and change our disasterous foreign policy, then I am all for space exploration. If, as I actually suspect, we are going for hundred-trillion dollar sightseeing tour of the cosmos, then I am not for space exploration. Much of Dr. deGrasse-Tyson's rhetoric smacks of doing this because it is 'neat'. I think that this money is better spent at home, regardless of the promise of a utopian Star Trek-style future. You can't eat a fiberoptic cable.
/neo-luddite mode
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Well put
There are plenty of technological needs right here on earth that need inventin'.
Space exploration is great.. when we can afford it.
No one is saying that Americans are
never going back in to the space exploration business. We are just not going now. We are just taking a break to focus our resources on more terrestrial issues. I think it is a wise decision. Unexciting perhaps. but wise.
What if the US issued Space Bonds (Like victory bonds back when we actually funded our wars)? If the citizens are really hot for space exploration, let's see how much each citizen would voluntarily spend?
If space exploration is in the heart of all human souls, we should have plenty of people lining up to donate their money.. right?
