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Space Race Driven By Nuclear Threat - Shift Toward Understanding
Hola. It's clear that there has been a solid shift toward understanding that the Space Race was driven by the nuclear threat, and this view is now established in the mainstream. The latest video I'm aware of is this PBS Digital Studio spot that answers the question,
"Why Do We Go to Space?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TES491F2e6c&t=26s Quote: "Our first rockets were weapons ...we rode to space on the tip of giant missiles. We were driven by war. ... We rode those rockets to the Moon." The person who has brought this view into the mainstream, as I have spoken of previously here, is Neil deGrasse Tyson. Here's his speech from last year where he explains his book "Space Chronicles", a book which he says he wanted it to title it: "Failure to Launch: The Dreams and Delusions of Space Enthusiasts" This is a very long speech he gives, but this link is cued up to a section where in a couple of minutes he explains JFK's 1961 speech as persuading that it is... "...the War Driver that led to the Check Writing." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErZq2ZQQTrs&t=42m50s Huge kudos to NdT. ~ CT |
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Space Race Driven By Nuclear Threat - Shift Toward Understanding
On Monday, October 21, 2013 1:51:11 AM UTC-7, Stuf4 wrote:
Hola. It's clear that there has been a solid shift toward understanding that the Space Race was driven by the nuclear threat, and this view is now established in the mainstream. The latest video I'm aware of is this PBS Digital Studio spot that answers the question, "Why Do We Go to Space?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TES491F2e6c&t=26s Quote: "Our first rockets were weapons ...we rode to space on the tip of giant missiles. We were driven by war. ... We rode those rockets to the Moon." The person who has brought this view into the mainstream, as I have spoken of previously here, is Neil deGrasse Tyson. Here's his speech from last year where he explains his book "Space Chronicles", a book which he says he wanted it to title it: "Failure to Launch: The Dreams and Delusions of Space Enthusiasts" This is a very long speech he gives, but this link is cued up to a section where in a couple of minutes he explains JFK's 1961 speech as persuading that it is... "...the War Driver that led to the Check Writing." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErZq2ZQQTrs&t=42m50s Huge kudos to NdT. ~ CT Except Russia never had intentions or having taken aggressive actions as representing any real threat to America. Virtually all the fears and any notions of a national threat from Russia was perpetrated and/or exploited by those of our MIC. |
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Space Race Driven By Nuclear Threat - Shift Toward Understanding
From Jeff Findley:
I have mixed feelings about this guy. On one hand, he presents information to the "mainstream" in an easy to understand fashion. On the other hand, he often spouts views that seem unsupported, likely because he's reluctant to delve too far into the details, lest he "lose" his mainstream audience. Also, he's an astrophysicist, so I often find his views on aerospace engineering to be, at best, lacking. But the main "thrust" of this book seems to be what motivated the space program in the '60's and what should motivate it in the present and future. A delicious example of his limitations in aerospace engineering is right there in that speech where at one point he tries to pronounce the company name Martin Marietta, but what comes out of his mouth is: "Martin Marionetta". Hahah! Good ole Ike would have gotten a kick out of that one, imagining the industry side of the military-industrial complex as having puppet strings to so easily pull on! I find it curious that you provided the old title to his book "Failure to Launch: The Dreams and Delusions of Space Enthusiasts", when the book title is actually: "Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier" by Neil deGrasse Tyson. I say that because his preferred title fits exactly with the message he is delivering. And he even explicitly shares this story in the speech, he https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErZq2ZQQTrs&t=49m48s He states in no uncertain terms that the 'Delusions' title is the one that he had submitted to the publisher, but they had a cow over that. The title got switched to something far more palatable to the general public. ~ CT I've not read the book, but from the reviews I've read, the first part is a restating of "the space race" as we all know it. Fueled by the Cold War, the Space Race, was nothing more than a *&^# waving contest between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It was a contest, an alternative to nuclear war, to "prove" which country (and ideology) was superior. The Soviet Union was clearly in the lead, until the U.S. decided to put a man on the moon with a "waste anything but time" mantra. Oddly enough, the U.S. took a socialistic approach of a single program led by few people at the very top. The Soviet Union had a few competing camps in both the launch vehicle (missile) and spacecraft arenas. In other words, a more "competitive" approach which was much closer to capitalism than the U.S. approach. It's therefore somewhat ironic that the U.S. claims that it "won" the Space Race by putting a man on the moon in 1969. Only now, with the budgetary necessity of the "commercial cargo" and "commercial crew" initiatives is the U.S. starting to approach space travel in a more capitalistic manner. Oddly enough, the budgetary crisis is being caused by the gigantic, socialistic, congressionally mandated, SLS/Orion program. SLS/Orion is so huge, from a budgetary perspective, that there is little to no money for any actual payloads! So, on one hand Congress mandates yet another huge, socialistic, mega- program (SLS/Orion) with one set of winners picked by NASA, but the day to day manned space program (ISS) is being run on a shoestring budget in a capitalistic, competitive, manner. The good news is that the "commercial" programs are showing much more progress, with far less money spent, than the mega-project. Hopefully this means that people will begin to realize that "the emperor has no clothes". So, goof-ball proposals like "unmanned asteroid retrieval" with SLS/Orion visiting the asteroid only when it is brought back to the earth/moon system are being floated by NASA. I personally think this is the dumbest idea ever. Why use an *unmanned* mission to bring an asteroid close to earth to study when SLS/Orion was intended to fly far beyond LEO. Very strange times, to say the least. |
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Space Race Driven By Nuclear Threat - Shift Toward Understanding
From Brad Guth:
On Monday, October 21, 2013 1:51:11 AM UTC-7, Stuf4 wrote: Hola. It's clear that there has been a solid shift toward understanding that the Space Race was driven by the nuclear threat, and this view is now established in the mainstream. The latest video I'm aware of is this PBS Digital Studio spot that answers the question, snip ~ CT Except Russia never had intentions or having taken aggressive actions as representing any real threat to America. Virtually all the fears and any notions of a national threat from Russia was perpetrated and/or exploited by those of our MIC. I *totally* disagree with that. The USSR certainly had the option to stay put on the other side of the globe without presenting a threat to the USA. But on August 29, 1949, they made the deliberate choice to punch their card as the second member of the nuclear club. That is not a club you join *without* fully knowing that you will instantly become a serious threat to all who see you to be their enemy. And then eight years later, on August 21, 1957, they cranked up the intensity of the threat they presented by demonstrating their ability to deliver nuclear warheads at the speed of Domino's Pizza. "Guaranteed to destroy your city in 30 minutes or less, or your next warhead is free." The R-7 was a huge game changer. A country that is not trying to threaten others does not develop an entirely new class of weapons such as the ICBM. Now the point that I would say regarding the Soviet role in the Cold War is that they were not the aggressors. They developed nukes and even the R-7 in *response* to the huge threat that the USofA posed to them. ....but then we could back that up a step and say that the US developed nukes in *response* to the huge threat posed by the Third Reich. ....and we can back that up a step further to say that the Third Reich was acting in *response* to the huge threat they lived under as a result of the WWI outcome. ....and the most thorough historian would trace this entire chain back to pre-history, where it could then be handed over to anthropologists who would tell us that this cycle of violence traces back to the very dawn of hominids. ....and the most thorough anthropologist would hand this off to the evolutionary biologists who would tell us that this cycle of violence existed in the animal kingdom long before humans and proto-humans existed. And they'd show the evidence that this type of behavior happened even before the Animal kingdom arose from the Plant kingdom. Violence is so ingrained in the natural order of things in this world that I see it to be a mistake to draw arbitrary lines of separation and to say that "this group was innocent of threats and aggression whereas this group was guilty". If we are to ever evolve beyond this cycle of violence, we must first own up to our collective complicity. ~ CT |
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Space Race Driven By Nuclear Threat - Shift Toward Understanding
On Monday, October 21, 2013 9:28:51 PM UTC-7, Stuf4 wrote:
From Brad Guth: On Monday, October 21, 2013 1:51:11 AM UTC-7, Stuf4 wrote: Hola. It's clear that there has been a solid shift toward understanding that the Space Race was driven by the nuclear threat, and this view is now established in the mainstream. The latest video I'm aware of is this PBS Digital Studio spot that answers the question, snip ~ CT Except Russia never had intentions or having taken aggressive actions as representing any real threat to America. Virtually all the fears and any notions of a national threat from Russia was perpetrated and/or exploited by those of our MIC. I *totally* disagree with that. The USSR certainly had the option to stay put on the other side of the globe without presenting a threat to the USA. But on August 29, 1949, they made the deliberate choice to punch their card as the second member of the nuclear club. That is not a club you join *without* fully knowing that you will instantly become a serious threat to all who see you to be their enemy.. And then eight years later, on August 21, 1957, they cranked up the intensity of the threat they presented by demonstrating their ability to deliver nuclear warheads at the speed of Domino's Pizza. "Guaranteed to destroy your city in 30 minutes or less, or your next warhead is free." The R-7 was a huge game changer. A country that is not trying to threaten others does not develop an entirely new class of weapons such as the ICBM.. Now the point that I would say regarding the Soviet role in the Cold War is that they were not the aggressors. They developed nukes and even the R-7 in *response* to the huge threat that the USofA posed to them. ...but then we could back that up a step and say that the US developed nukes in *response* to the huge threat posed by the Third Reich. ...and we can back that up a step further to say that the Third Reich was acting in *response* to the huge threat they lived under as a result of the WWI outcome. ...and the most thorough historian would trace this entire chain back to pre-history, where it could then be handed over to anthropologists who would tell us that this cycle of violence traces back to the very dawn of hominids. ...and the most thorough anthropologist would hand this off to the evolutionary biologists who would tell us that this cycle of violence existed in the animal kingdom long before humans and proto-humans existed. And they'd show the evidence that this type of behavior happened even before the Animal kingdom arose from the Plant kingdom. Violence is so ingrained in the natural order of things in this world that I see it to be a mistake to draw arbitrary lines of separation and to say that "this group was innocent of threats and aggression whereas this group was guilty". If we are to ever evolve beyond this cycle of violence, we must first own up to our collective complicity. ~ CT The mutually perpetrated cold-war era was always intended to benefit and promote each of the respective MICs. Russia was never a direct or even an indirect threat to honest hard working Americans. Russia and the US basically created North Korea. Obviously you've never been an honest hard working American, so there's always going to be a problem no matters what the evidence of insiders and their skulduggery has to say. Are you actually suggesting that our government and its dozens of agencies have always told us the whole truth and nothing but the truth? |
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Space Race Driven By Nuclear Threat - Shift Toward Understanding
From Brad Guth:
snip : The mutually perpetrated cold-war era was always intended to benefit and : promote each of the respective MICs. Russia was never a direct or even an : indirect threat to honest hard working Americans. Russia and the US basically : created North Korea. Obviously you've never been an honest hard working : American, so there's always going to be a problem no matters what the : evidence of insiders and their skulduggery has to say. Are you actually : suggesting that our government and its dozens of agencies have always told us : the whole truth and nothing but the truth? In our current age of Wikileaks and such, I don't think there is anyone around who would maintain that our government has a sterling record of honesty. ~ CT |
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Space Race Driven By Nuclear Threat - Shift Toward Understanding
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Stuf4 wrote: From Brad Guth: snip : The mutually perpetrated cold-war era was always intended to benefit and : promote each of the respective MICs. Russia was never a direct or even an : indirect threat to honest hard working Americans. Russia and the US : basically : created North Korea. Obviously you've never been an honest hard working : American, so there's always going to be a problem no matters what the : evidence of insiders and their skulduggery has to say. Are you actually : suggesting that our government and its dozens of agencies have always told : us : the whole truth and nothing but the truth? In our current age of Wikileaks and such, I don't think there is anyone around who would maintain that our government has a sterling record of honesty. ~ CT .... nor any other government, for that matter. This fact is a major paradox for those who believe that more government is desirable. |
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Space Race Driven By Nuclear Threat - Shift Toward Understanding
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 4:17:06 AM UTC-7, Stuf4 wrote:
From Brad Guth: snip : The mutually perpetrated cold-war era was always intended to benefit and : promote each of the respective MICs. Russia was never a direct or even an : indirect threat to honest hard working Americans. Russia and the US basically : created North Korea. Obviously you've never been an honest hard working : American, so there's always going to be a problem no matters what the : evidence of insiders and their skulduggery has to say. Are you actually : suggesting that our government and its dozens of agencies have always told us : the whole truth and nothing but the truth? In our current age of Wikileaks and such, I don't think there is anyone around who would maintain that our government has a sterling record of honesty. ~ CT It never was sterling from the very get-go. However as of more lately it's getting totally out of control. The mutually perpetrated cold-war era that nearly started WW3 was even better off. |
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