1:00:38I feel like they got rid of it after discovery exploded
1:00:41they explore sol our galaxy not the universe
1:00:42The welfare state and social security eats up the most.
1:00:42and all Americans loved it too
1:00:45Just wait until, we find oil on mars.
1:00:50yeah, we got to the moon to own the soviets.
1:00:51they coudln't let the russians win
1:00:53space funding was about devolping rockets good enough to devolp ICMBs
1:00:55artemis could have been much better, but they canceled a bunch of the best stuff already.
1:00:57Correct. Dual-use tech. Rockets and guidance.
1:00:59right before the year 2000 we were still pushing a lot of stuff in Space I feel, like Shuttles and ISS
1:01:00and we have a new rival these days
1:01:01yeah, its just been a tiny science experiment budget for a while
1:01:01there's also a lot less risk tolerance now, which is good
1:01:02War often leads to technological advancement yes?
1:01:02It was rapid expansion of the welfare system
1:01:02"if they won't be distracted by it why fund it" -sun tsu
1:01:04The discovery explosion wasn’t a tragedy it was a glorious death by striving for the stars
1:01:05well we're competing with china now so we have a reason to go back now
1:01:07NASA lost it's balls in the 90s. By that point the visionaries were replaced with bureaucrats
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1:01:19The Resource Race is driving a new Space Race
1:01:21War leads to inovation, its human nature
1:01:22It was also way dirtier and more dangerous back then
1:01:28the Mercury program launched on basically ICBMs
1:01:28Raytheon did the Apollo guidance computer. They do missle guidance now
1:01:29peace is a poor innovator of technology