[ExI] Moooon

[Dan]

IIRC, in the Dick novel, it ends with it not being real, correct? But let's remember, in so far as the Germans were heading out into space more rapidly than actually happened, it was a novel -- i.e., a work of fiction. In my estimation, the Cold War was a big set back overall for human progress -- all the wasted resources and the overall fear mindset. (In my view, too, it helped to shift America more in a religious direction to fight those "godless commies.") I think we're still recovering from that.
 
Regards,
 
Dan
From: Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 6:14 AM
Subject: Re: [ExI] Moooon


On 21 July 2011 04:52, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:

The only force that will get us to the moon is capitalism. 

Why, I am under the impression that, exactly as it had been the case for most explorations, expansions and conquests, the force which brought us there was international competition. Politics, as somebody suggested.

Philip K. Dick in fact assumes (in the Man in the High Castle) that had in an even worse version of the Cold War we would have been to Mars more or less in the same period...

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Stefano Vaj
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