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johnny9fingersDo you remember how, thanks to Reagan's 'Star Wars' program, the former USSR was pushed to the edge of bankruptcy, and regime change was instituted thereby?
Well, thanks to our astute leadership, cost cutting, removing redundancy from the system etc, the US has managed to use (& use up) the advantages it had from being the only superpower with a real and fully functional space agency.
No longer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2198405,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=science
Japan, China, and India are now involved in their own space race. China intends to put a man on the moon by 2020. Japan are trying to beat them to it. India have started competing too.
The money that could have gone to the US space development seems to have gone elsewhere, and that doesn't mean social medical programs for the underprivileged.
Someone upped the stakes while GWB was looking elsewhere. And the ruling classes in America are spending too much time trying to get their snouts into the reconstruction-of-Iraq trough, to access some of that money haemorrhaging from the US taxpayer and into the pockets of the shareholders of some of the dodgiest companies ever to grace capitalism.
But if there's a trough, it's what snouts were designed for, surely?
Never mind, when the Chinese develop the moon's potential, and US citizens need to go through passport control, you'll know who to thank.
Well, thanks to our astute leadership, cost cutting, removing redundancy from the system etc, the US has managed to use (& use up) the advantages it had from being the only superpower with a real and fully functional space agency.
No longer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2198405,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=science
Japan, China, and India are now involved in their own space race. China intends to put a man on the moon by 2020. Japan are trying to beat them to it. India have started competing too.
The money that could have gone to the US space development seems to have gone elsewhere, and that doesn't mean social medical programs for the underprivileged.
Someone upped the stakes while GWB was looking elsewhere. And the ruling classes in America are spending too much time trying to get their snouts into the reconstruction-of-Iraq trough, to access some of that money haemorrhaging from the US taxpayer and into the pockets of the shareholders of some of the dodgiest companies ever to grace capitalism.
But if there's a trough, it's what snouts were designed for, surely?
Never mind, when the Chinese develop the moon's potential, and US citizens need to go through passport control, you'll know who to thank.
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Date: 2007-10-25 04:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-25 04:57 pm (UTC)It's odd that Japan's in the game... they opted out at the beginning, instead choosing to focus on giant robot developments... ;)
EU's in on it too. They've just been quiet.
Argentina gave a good try
I think the US's budget for EVERYTHING went to fund GWB's latest war.