"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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wrote:
If space can provide
something else cheaper and better than you can get it on Earth, that
will attract investment too. What it might be I can't imagine, but
where you need to focus energy on is imagining it.
That says much more about the paucity of your imagination than about the
nature or reality of space markets.
Lacking anything valid to say, you just hurl insults.
No, while I occasionally insult when I think it appropriate, I rarely
"just" do so. And in this case, I simply describe reality, logically
derived from your own statement.
But he is absolutely correct in that the solution to our greatest
problems will flow from our imagination. Which is what is
entirely lacking in our current space vision. They failed to
imagine how Nasa's goal would inspire public support, they
failed to imagine how it would create a space industry.
Or how the vision would generate tangible benefits to
society.
The vision does very little on any of these counts.
But imagining the future, a future where solar power, not oil
is our primary energy source leads to a solution that accomplishes
all of the above in boatloads.
As SPS could hold the long term solution to three of our greatest
most pressing issues today. Our dependence on oil, the global
warming that results. And the wars over oil that could dominate
our future. Not to mention the present.
It's through these tremendous possible benefits to society that
brings public and Congressional support. The kind of support
that could transform Nasa into more than just an agency of
pure science.
But turn Nasa into the agency that could save our future
and our planet.
Isn't that what the high frontier is all about, the future?
Jonathan
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