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Cut the US defense budget in half and we'd have 10,000 people on Mars in 20 years. It's an issue of priorities.
by rms 18y ago
Cut the US defense budget in half and we'd have 10,000 people on Mars in 20 years. It's an issue of priorities.
- eru 18y agoEither by using that money to lowering taxes or finance NASA.
- TomOfTTB 18y agoYour both probably right but priorities come from Public Sentiment more than anything else. So it's as much the fault of people not talking about it (which I'm guilty of) as it is the fault of anything else.
- ivankirigin 18y agoGiving billions from one government agency to another doesn't sound like it would create real innovation to me.
- gravitycop 18y agoIs innovation needed, in order to colonize Earth orbit? http://www.dunnspace.com/leo_on_the_cheap.htm http://www.dunnspace.com/leo_on_the_cheap.htm
- ivankirigin 18y agoI don't believe governments have what it takes to make any good, big idea in space viable. We're biased towards believing that because of the space race, but I don't think it will ever happen again. So even if something isn't new tech, the innovation will be the group doing it. I'm really excited about the private efforts today.