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>> >> This makes no sense to me. Who cares if China or India waste a
>> >> trillion dollars "establishing norms" on the moon? How many kids are
>> >> going hungry to bring back more boring moon dirt?
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>> >> And "space" is pretty big. Nobody is going to dominate space. >> >
>> >It's 21st century circus for the fools...both of those places are in dire need of freeing up the geniuses distracted by that waste to work on more pressing down to Earth problems, like feeding themselves.
>> One argument is that spending resources on NASA equivalents bootstraps
>> technology in a poor country. I think they have that backwards. >
>They're missing the historical context of the western model which is industrial sector expertise bootstraps the big scientific programs, not the other way around.
Yes, science usually follows invention.
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>> It's tragic how much North Korea spends on missiles and cannons and >> nukes.
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>He would have nothing else to show for his government without it.