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>Mars colonies don't come from the private sector, Elon and Jeff notwithstanding Exploration has a long history of rich benefactors and private interests. Mon
by georgeburdell 7y ago
>Mars colonies don't come from the private sector, Elon and Jeff notwithstanding
Exploration has a long history of rich benefactors and private interests. Monarchs, Dutch East India Corporation, etc., are closer to Musk and Bezos than a modern democratic state
>The problem is that public science has been starved of funding for decades through tax cuts.
This graph suggests otherwise? In current dollar terms, R&D spending is double what it was in the 1970s.
https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/2019-06/DefNon.png https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/2019-06/DefNon.png
- rhizome 7y agoI am skeptical of the success rate of rich benefactors for a technology with only a century of practice, vs. boats that have been used for thousands of years. >In current dollar terms, R&D spending is double what it was in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#/media/File:NASA-Budget-Federal.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#/media/File:NAS... And there are more budgets to be involved than just these two.