> in the old days the smartest kids of the block were lured to figure out how to get to the moon and how to get electricity from splitting atoms Part of it I t

> in the old days the smartest kids of the block were lured to figure out how to get to the moon and how to get electricity from splitting atoms Part of it I think was just money. Wasn’t that all funded by the government? If you throw money at it, people will go there. It’s the same now. There was also a naive optimism of what the future could bring with space travel and free energy from nuclear power … then reality hit.