Neil deGrasse Tyson: How Space Exploration Can Make America Great Again

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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

No luddite. Simply a concerned American. No harm in being a partriot.

I am blinded by my interest in men and women like this. So yes, I am biased.


I feel we truly need to get back to science and industry to prosper.

The consumerism, and re-sell my house for double thing is not working.