"Hop David" wrote in message ...

Brains are also needed to enforce a Pax Americana.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/Re...asDefenses.pdf
has a lot of stuff in it that's on-topic in this newsgroup.


Yes, I've been to the NewAmericanCentury site before and that's pre-
cisely why I'm so scared. I agree that everyone should read this
stuff, much in the same way that more people over here should have
read Mein Kampf in the Twenties...

They don't see space as an opportunity for supplying themselves and
the world with energy in these documents. To them it's only another
battle theater in the war for the resources of Earth, i.e. much the
same thing it's been since the days of Sputnik. Space is just a stra-
tegic high ground from which you can watch other nations and, if nec-
essary, rain death on them.


It is such misguided ideas that led to the point where space explora-
tion was stalled after one superpower made it to the Moon while the
other one didn't, where a clunky and totally impractical space shuttle
was built just so it could shoot military satellites into space, where
horrific and useless pork-barrel projects of SDI were sponsored rather
than useful stuff, where an international space station was seen mere-
ly as an effort to keep former Soviet scientists employed so they
wouldn't sell their missile-building expertise to rogue nations...

These guys' ideas of the usefulness of space is limited to destruc-
tion, deterrents, and supremacy. To them space will always be a place
it never pays to go into other than for securing the nation militarily
and for spying on and shooting missiles at others.

Well, it's better than nothing, of course... The problem is, this
will never get us out of LEO. It will never make space flight pay for
itself. That's why they're not helping--not really!



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