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How to finance the new space program
Morgans wrote:
Of coarse the technology is not ready. That is exactly the point. Tec is born in the space program. Look at your MU-2. Start counting the Apollo born tec. Look around you at home, and work. Look at all the space program tec. Space program tech? HA! The single largest driving force behind technology today is not aerospace, defense spending, e-commerce, or job outsourcing. It is computer games. Don't you know why Intel and AMD are in a perpetual race for more microprocessor speed? It is not to make your Excel spreadsheet go faster. It so 9 to 14-year-old males can play Grand Theft Auto III. The revenue from computer games exceeds that of movies, television, and music COMBINED. Everyone else, i.e. the DoD, NASA, Oracle, Pixar, Tivo, iTunes, ILM, Cisco, Dell, are all just riding the coattails of the gamers. If NASA would get off it's high horse and start allowing some commercialism, there would be no worries about budgets or technology. Figure out a way for a 12-year-old to drive a lunar rover with his X-Box, and NASA would need the Vertical Assembly Building to hold all the money it would make. Ross Oliver still waiting for Halo II |
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