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As far as government coercions go, it's hard to understand how someone could have a problem with forcing people to give up money in order to develop the most im
by sillysaurus3 12y ago
As far as government coercions go, it's hard to understand how someone could have a problem with forcing people to give up money in order to develop the most important technology in the history of technology. Would you mind explaining your point of view in a little more detail?
There won't be a market for space travel until it's a reality, so this would seem to be one of the only ways forward.
- vonmoltke 12y ago> it's hard to understand how someone could have a problem with forcing people to give up money in order to develop the most important technology in the history of technology I'm not trying to defend stefan_kendall3's position, but you made a pretty large personal value judgement in that statement. You think this is "the most important technology in the history of technology"; many people don't.[1] In fact, many people think that human spaceflight, including some of the Earth orbit missions we already run, are a waste of valuable resources that should be diverted elsewhere. [1] For the record, I think human spaceflight is pretty important in the long term, but disagree that it is most important area of technology. I think certain areas of medicine should be placed ahead of it, for example.
- sillysaurus3 12y agoGood point! Thanks for the point of view. I was genuinely hoping someone would provide a defense of stefan's position, but it's looking less like it'll happen. That's too bad, because it was a chance to learn something.