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