Griffin Remarks.....Time to Militarize Space, 31 August 2005

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Jim Oberg wrote:

It might look like that, but analyze it from the
other direction -- the greatest discoveries, and many
of the greatest inventions, depended on somebody
stumbling around with the faith that something would
be found, or even just stumbling around until tripping
over something and saying, "Huh? That's funny...'

And stumbling about in space (with multi-gigadollar
projects) is better than stumbling about in terrestrial
labs? You can do a whole lot more stumbling down here
for your research dollar.

Unless you have some reason to think that space stumbling
is going to be more productive than non-space stumbling,
your point would suggest that space isn't a good place
to do this random exploration.

Paul