@Tfmonkey The crazy thing is, half a century ago back in the mid-70's the same Engineers that sent men to the moon built the most badass hypersonic missile system to intercept incoming soviet ICBM's. It was called the SPRINT system and it reached Mach 10 in 5 seconds from launch. It was deployed for two years and then cancelled and mothballed. All domain expertise is gone, the blueprints are lost, all the men that built it are dead. America decided welfare for shaniqua was more important.
@Engineer What if those missiles were a bluff and didn't actually work, and were propaganda and that's why the US couldn't replicate their mid-70s technology.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=16MMZJlp_0Y
I'd go to the moon, but we don't have that technology anymore - NASA Astronaut Don Pettit
The Earth Question
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We should not spend any government money on research for anything, that is how you create "science" cults with fake data to keep getting new funding where the IRS holds people at gunpoint instead of real science
We should focus on how to do science and invent things to help humans on earth
If we can not solve basic problems on earth then we should not infect outer space with stupidity
