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Originally posted by SpacePunk
reply to post by arbiture
I've faced the cold reality that space exploration is dead, ended, kaput.
Social and military spending has gotten to the point that not even a 'private' space program will get it off the ground beyond being a tourist industry. My own theory is that very few civilizations get beyond their own orbit due to increased social and/or military spending. We are going to be another that just eventually dies in it's on filth on it's home planet. What resources are there for a real space program will be exhausted before humanity gets it together, and realizes that we must get off this planet prior to that.
Originally posted by SaturnFX
True space exploration and colonization will happen only when there is a new world order and united earth.
That wont happen anytime soon because people are still too primitive to trust such a system and will fight it tooth and nail instead of help in bringing it together...
perhaps we will pick it back up in all seriousness in about 100 years, once the taint of the generations living today no longer exist.
Originally posted by WhiteOneActual
I think they're throwing away a major trump card here.
Nothing brings Americans together like exploration and discovery. We're only a few generations past the westward expansion, and I think the pioneer spirit is still a major part of the collective American personality. Its in our blood.
In a time of such political and social division, I don't think there is anything that we could all get together behind like putting a man on Mars or a permanent installation on the moon.
They could pass whatever laws they wanted to if the public was waiting in anticipation for the next sitrep from the Mars mission.
I would agree with you, except we can chose between less money and no money at all. NASA does some things well, other things and its cumbersome and awkward. Near the end of that progress thats where you want private enterprise to step into the breech.
No matter how much other stuff you screwed up, you'd always be known as the President who put a man on Mars.
Originally posted by WhiteOneActual
I think they're throwing away a major trump card here.
Nothing brings Americans together like exploration and discovery. We're only a few generations past the westward expansion, and I think the pioneer spirit is still a major part of the collective American personality. Its in our blood.
In a time of such political and social division, I don't think there is anything that we could all get together behind like putting a man on Mars or a permanent installation on the moon.
They could pass whatever laws they wanted to if the public was waiting in anticipation for the next sitrep from the Mars mission.
No matter how much other stuff you screwed up, you'd always be known as the President who put a man on Mars.