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

Takeda Shingen · 03-06-12, 05:50 PM

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

03-06-12, 05:50 PM	#3
Takeda Shingen Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 8,643 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	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