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Cant believe in this day and age they still spend their money on space programs and long-range missiles while their people starve - then bang on their high chair for more money to keep doing the same thing. Crazy man crazy.
The Asian thing with Space reminds me of the old days here. We now have space programs in Japan, China, India, and possibly Myanmar. Japan and China have excellent manned programs, and India is right behind them. All stand a good chance of being on the Moon before we return there. And don't forget former Soviet Republic Belarus, and of course Iran. The drivers seem much the same as during the Cold War: not so much wanting to get up there first, as fear that someone else will. Space is also a huge "equalizer" of military power. Physicist Gerard K. O'Neil characterized space as the "High Frontier" and made clear the military implications in his books and lectures. It's easy to forget that people went hungry in the USSR while they raced us to space. For that matter, there were a few empty bellies in the USA as well.
I dont see a current thread echoing this same sentiment so I'll put this reminder here. From the Christian Science Monitor, "In office 30 days and President Obama has already devised a stimulus package, a bank bailout, and now a mortgage rescue. Like Franklin D. Roosevelt, he has put government's shoulder into a falling economy."
So...he has been showing up for work, and yet you all continue to pretend he's slacking off, cruising around in Air Force One, partying wherever he can find a party (like Canada in February).
The Asian thing with Space reminds me of the old days here. We now have space programs in Japan, China, India, and possibly Myanmar. Japan and China have excellent manned programs, and India is right behind them. All stand a good chance of being on the Moon before we return there. And don't forget former Soviet Republic Belarus, and of course Iran. The drivers seem much the same as during the Cold War: not so much wanting to get up there first, as fear that someone else will. Space is also a huge "equalizer" of military power. Physicist Gerard K. O'Neil characterized space as the "High Frontier" and made clear the military implications in his books and lectures. It's easy to forget that people went hungry in the USSR while they raced us to space. For that matter, there were a few empty bellies in the USA as well.
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