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Bill · 2004-01-15, 04:51 PM

The pundits seem to be agreeing that this new space proposal lets bush dump money in the big republican states florida, texas, and california, thus almost guaranteeing a re-election due to the peculiatries of the electoral college system.

Building roads usually doesn't lead to technological advances and the creation of new technological industries, which space research has always lead to in the past. I don't know if it's true, but I've read speculation in the science magazines that what we've already learned in robotics from the mars missions will be worth 30 billion dollars in the next 10 years in commercial robotics, and we all know robotics is poised to be the big tech revolution of the 21st century, as important as the electronic revolution in the 20th century.

Like "no child left behind", I suspect bush's space proposal is a fraud, a political gambit empty of any actual willingness to get the job done, a paper tiger. Basically another way to give tax money to his cronies.

But it's one of the only things he's done which I think we might be able to be proud of, and to profit from.

2004-01-15, 04:51 PM	#8
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	The pundits seem to be agreeing that this new space proposal lets bush dump money in the big republican states florida, texas, and california, thus almost guaranteeing a re-election due to the peculiatries of the electoral college system. Building roads usually doesn't lead to technological advances and the creation of new technological industries, which space research has always lead to in the past. I don't know if it's true, but I've read speculation in the science magazines that what we've already learned in robotics from the mars missions will be worth 30 billion dollars in the next 10 years in commercial robotics, and we all know robotics is poised to be the big tech revolution of the 21st century, as important as the electronic revolution in the 20th century. Like "no child left behind", I suspect bush's space proposal is a fraud, a political gambit empty of any actual willingness to get the job done, a paper tiger. Basically another way to give tax money to his cronies. But it's one of the only things he's done which I think we might be able to be proud of, and to profit from.