Monday, June 27, 2011

2001 - Then and Now ( in reference to the movie)

Q: What could put us back on a track toward the space accomplishment of 2001?

I think that we should immediately cease building any kind of space station. Instead, we should be building a moon base, so that we can occupy it and begin to learn how to live, work, and do scientific research off the planet.

He says in the article something to the effect that Nixon didn't want to do space.
The movie differs from present reality because the policy makers of the Nixon Administration decided to sidestep the territorial issue. In this way, they maintained more control over a space program that they had inherited from a previous administration and for which they has little enthusiasm.

So, when I say that the powers that be don't want something, I am not the only one who ever said it.  That includes an actual solution to the energy problem.  If you solve energy, you solve space.  (Somebody else said that too)
 

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