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Military competition is always necessary. You need to be able to defend yourself, and for that, you cannot fall too far behind. I agree with you when we get to
by mikejb 9y ago
Military competition is always necessary. You need to be able to defend yourself, and for that, you cannot fall too far behind.
I agree with you when we get to the offensive use of weapons. Though the US is only one of a number of players in that field.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoYeah, I have no illusion that military one-upping is going away any time soon. My point was only that while it's true it was military competition that opened access to space, we don't have to forever justify space exploration by military applications. Private industry around space, and NewSpace in particular, is a good step towards that. Military competitions is what gave us microwave tech. Doesn't mean that if world peace suddenly happened, we would stop producing microwave ovens.