ChunkyC
I dunno about anyone else, but I get chills every time I think about the Ansari X Prize being won. We are on the cusp of something monumental in human history.
SpaceShipOne
SpaceShipOne
I find that I'm equal parts pleased and peeved about this news. Pleased because finally we're getting somewhere and peeved because we should have been here already twenty years ago.
Can I please have a robot to clean my apartment?
I do agree that feeding the hungry is a more important task, but there's more than enough money and food to do both and then some if we'd only learn to allocate our resources fairly. I don't remember the numbers exactly (I'll be back with 'em if I can find 'em) but the last figures I remember reading were that US space program cost is equivalent to roughly five percent of the military budget. And that was before Bush cranked up military spending.Actually, I'm more peeved that we're spending money on this when millions go hungry each day, even here in North America
Couldn't the US shave fifteen or twenty billion (or a hell of a lot more) off the military budget and reallocate it?
And how many hungry people could be fed with 2.2 billion dollars?
Not many; few people (or any other higher animal, for that matter) can survive on dollars...or Euros or yen or any other currency.how many hungry people could be fed with 2.2 billion dollars?
Actually, I'm more peeved that we're spending money on this when millions go hungry each day, even here in North America.
The system that prevails around the globe is one that places an incentive upon people so that they will work to earn their own living.
... I do think we need to solve our problems here on earth before we go messing up the rest of the universe.