I'm sorry but that is a bunch of nonsense. > Reaching the moon already was only done to compete with a faction outside the reference system. Yes, going to the

I'm sorry but that is a bunch of nonsense. > Reaching the moon already was only done to compete with a faction outside the reference system. Yes, going to the moon had to do with geopolitics but all this stuff about the 'reference system' is nonsense. Any geopolitical opponent could have led to the same result. > Without commies to race and lean against, the western system decayed to just another nice decorated, well managed cotton plantation. You are again trying to shoehorn your larged philiosophy about 'modern capitalism' into the argument. First of all it is absolutly clear to anybody with idioligical glasses on that NASA started to perfom less well long before it was clear to most people that the Soviet system was going to collapse. NASA was young, flexible had lots of budget and thanks to a set of luck circumstances. The reality is that NASA has been burocratiesed and and largly been controlled by congress and presidents trying to use NASA for anything but space exploration. Non of that has anything to do with the Soviet Union and some problem with 'capitalism'. > There is no price on the far future events, such as bollide strikes. If there where, suddenly the moon would have holiday resorts. Just like in democracy things only happen if large numbers of people can support it, neither capitalism nor democracy has done mutch to defend against meteors. And nowdays it is actually capitalism that is driving the push towards people living of planet.