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Our knack for cooperation is what got us to space at all.
by maxerickson 4y ago
Our knack for cooperation is what got us to space at all.
- nolok 4y agoCooperate ... within our group to beat the other group
- wongarsu 4y agoWar and competition got us into space. WWII got German rocket scientists the funding and facilities to get some good ideas going, and after the war the US and USSR grabbed whatever German experts they could find and incorperated them into their own ballistic missile programs. Over the course of a decade those programs looked at launching missiles into space instead of hitting dummy targets. The Soviets were the first to successfully launch a satellite and the Americans were upset at the very thought of a communist country being better at something, which brought us a solid decade of space race with lots of spectacular achievements. Followed by the Russians giving up, and little of note happening over the 40 years (ok, rovers got better, the Russians built a bunch of space stations, and the fall of the Soviet Union got us the ISS. Not a whole lot for 40 years though).
- 7952 4y agoWar is a team sport. People have a reason to work for a common goal that is bigger than themselves. And that requires a supresion of a lot of competitive spirit. Not everyone can win a medal, be a general, or an astronaut. It takes thousands of normal people doing boring jobs.