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Originally Posted by thelogo
I'll put what trump said in layman's terms based upon what I said above.
'Let's give research companies billions of dollars so they can develop new aircrafts with weapon technologies, then we will pay them more billions for whatever useless/murderous equipments they come up with. That way we will be #1.!"
The French have a saying for this: "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"
Loosely translates to the more things change, the more they remain the same.
Run out to get asteroids. Asteroids are untapped natural resources. Might tow one back full of gold. Titanium. Tungsten. Some unique alloy we don't have on earth...
Then. Profit.
Asteroid research with an eye to possible resource extraction is long overdue. (As a side effect, we'd have to learn how to manipulate asteroid-size masses in space, and that could come in damn practical.) It's just that it has eff-all to do with Trump's SPACE FORCE. NASA should be doing that sport of thing, SpaceX will probably end up doing it because NASA is spending all their cash on the SLS and the existing project for visiting a near-Earth asteroid was introduced by the Obama administration, and we can't have that.
So we may or may not get another Moon mission, sometime in the 2020s, if the SLS doesn't fall further behind schedule. Woo.
Another unaccountable gov agency with no way to measure success or failure, not to mention that it will provide no tangible benefit to the people who will be forced to pay for it. A bureaucrats wet dream you might say.
Oh My. A Space Force. If only Buck Rogers was alive to see it happening.
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