[extropy-chat] Moon news

[Mike Lorrey]

--- "natashavita at earthlink.net" <natashavita at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > 
> I can see a way around this.  If NASA scraps current projects for a
> more exalted program, then the trickle down effect could occur and
the
> "scrapped" projects could go to private industry where their is a
> growing interest, and this could help it along.  I got a lot of good
> wear out of my best friends' hand-me-down cloths.  Of course she has
> very expensive taste, but so does NASA.

On the negative side, most of the 'irrelevant' projects tend to be
science R&D projects, something which the aerospace industry has
generally seen as NASA's job for the past three quarter century, and
which themselves don't generally generate much profit.

On the plus side, it will leave this research to private and state
universities, taking the work outside the governmental grant rat race,
and the schools generally do a better job of getting the businesses
that benefit most to fund these efforts as well. They also tend to
obtain the gained knowledge more cost effectively than federal programs.

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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
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