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Originally Posted by d-ray657
With respect to the value of environmentally friendly technology. Quite a bit of useful technology or other products came out of the space program - Tang and velcro among the more visible. Similarly, there have been viable products arise from technology developed for the military - GPS for example. The space program was in large part, one of the fronts sin the Cold War. The point - the subsidies paid in the form of a defense budget resulted in commercially viable products There is no telling whether these products would have been developed and made commercially viable without the huge amounts spent on the military.
If the scientists are right that environmental issues significantly threaten our way of life, would not the development of technology and products that reduce the degradation of the environment carry the moral equivalent of war? Invest in the technology and commit sufficient resources to R&D that commercially viable/ environmentally safe products are a regular part of the market.
How many holes does this bucket have in it?
Regards,
D-Ray
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I didn't see this D.
No holes, except in our fellow citizens heads (ok that's too rough
)
I read a series of articles in the old Analog magazine that discussed what we got from the moon shot. It was Amazing! (No, really, not the magazine
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The real boon would be fusion (which was a magazine too
). Amazing ( :-) ) amounts of power can do amazing seemingly impossible miraculous things. Forget futile efforts to stop global warming, and even the stimulus - spend it all on development of fusion power.
The obvious and simplest way it would generate wealth with fusion is, mine the asteriod belt. Very simple once you have propulsion. How much is a mile diameter chunk of nickle worth?
Pete