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Flint, MI water supply tainted by chemicals

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02-17-2016, 10:26 PM

Quote:Still nothing you said contradicts my point: SpaceX, Blue Origin and any other private company getting into the space business right now would not exist if it had not been for the research, development and progress made by NASA (and the Russians) in the past 50 years or so. Whether it was developing Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, the Shuttle or putting rovers on Mars, NASA has been plenty busy doing stuff successfully for the past while.

 

And to swing it back on the original point; you need government programs to do the things the free market refuses to do or can not be trusted to provide equally for all. In this case, the free market would never have funded space travel because it would never have been profitable, yet some or our biggest gains in science and engineering have come from space travel. The same with most scientific research; a large part of the scientific sector would not exist were it not for publicly funded programs.
 

And you still miss MY point. All of that progress made by NASA was 30 years ago. I didn't say government has no role in human development, just that government agencies stagnate without competition. When NASA put a man on the moon, there was competition from the Soviet Union.


 

Humanity needs to populate other worlds to survive long term. NASA should be working towards developing spacecraft that can travel between the stars. At a minimum they should be developing the technology to build permanent settlements on Mars. Impossible? Maybe, but you don't learn anything by doing what's easy. As JFK said:


 

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We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things,<sup>[7]</sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-familyConfusedans-serif;"> <i>not</i> because they are easy,<i>but because they are hard</i></span>
 

Right now NASA can't even put a human in low Earth orbit.




                                                                          

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