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It might give us the hope and belief that we are able to deal with the real issues in the next 20 to 50 years. You don't hear "If we can send a man to the moon,

It might give us the hope and belief that we are able to deal with the real issues in the next 20 to 50 years. You don't hear "If we can send a man to the moon, why can't we do X" anymore, because most people today don't remember that we were once able to send a man to the moon. They don't have that expectation that anything is possible if we just focus intently on it and decide to get it done.

arethuza 16y ago
Perhaps because "If we can send a man to the moon, why can't we do X" is a pretty terrible argument for most problems. For most analogous engineering projects (e.g. going to Mars) the answer is "because it costs too much".
- wlievens 16y ago
  That's not what the he meant. The Apollo Project inspired people to go into sciences and engineering to an extent that nothing since has done. That effect is, after four decades, ebbing away.
  - wlievens 16y ago
    Addendum: except of course the internet!