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Sprint Missile [video]
- graderjs 5y agoHow could this be built before 1975 (> 46 years ago) but we "still haven't been back" to Luna and are only now creating reusable chemical fuel rockets...?
- nabla9 5y agoMoon mission was Cold War competition with Soviet Union. There was no real political interest in space exploration. The Space Shuttle was was supposed to be a "space truck" capable of 40-50 launches per year. It was engineering failure. It never reached it goals, It was unreliable and so expensive to operate that there was little money for anything else. SpaceX is doing now what Space Shuttle was supposed to do. Even today the Mars missions etc. must be justified with "inspiration" and photo and videos delivered to public. There is no money and interest for scientific exploration.
- graderjs 5y agoI find this odd because if that's true, in other words if the policy direction really reflects that there's no money or interest for scientific exploration in the pure sense, --specifically you know like 'let's go explore space, the great unknown'--I find that really odd because the policy direction would then sort of directly contradict the sort of pervasive sci-fi narrative that fills science fiction films and so on. Maybe they're just unrelated I always thought of film industry as sort of expressing the soft power policy aspirations of the state. Like that's why violence and war is lionized because you need to create on the next generation of soldiers and in people's minds you need to have that occupation as something nobel... they' Tho given our ape brains it's not that hard to turn people into soldiers, anyway... we are naturally. But I just find it a really odd juxtaposition between there seemingly being no policy mojo behind space exploration but we represent that in our films as if it's some great aspiration that fills us with awe and wonder. Like, from the psyche of our civilization how do we resolve that?