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Originally Posted by Scribbler1
Try again. I said we were FOR it back then.
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That is why I said you should have financed it privately, unless of course you mean to say EVERYONE in the US supported it.
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It showed the Soviets that since we were the first there, should it have been necessary to do so, we could have gone back.
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Why exactly would have been necessary to come back? And why was it necessary to show that you could do so?
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Symbolically it was the right thing to do.
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Uh, why?
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Realistically, we showed them they could not have gained superiority in space and as such we felt it would be a deterrent to TRY.
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But they DID have the superiority in space at some point. First man in space, for instance. What you mean to say is "superiority in first man in space," perhaps? And why is that important again? And I don't mean "First X in Y"-wise, I mean realistically important.
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Some things could, but there's no guarantee most of the things WOULD have been done.
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A guy could find a briefcase with 1 million dollars in it on his way to blowing up a movie theater, but that doesn't make it a good idea. Is there some resource that we gathered in space or on the moon that could not have been obtained otherwise?
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And a lot of things that spun off from the space program were intended specifically for the space program.
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Don't you feel they could have been researched in more specific fields, perhaps more cheaply?
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They found other uses later. Many inventions do not supply a need, they CREATE a need. Like the microwave oven. There was no need for it, because everybody already had ovens and were quite happy with them. But when someone noticed the magnetron tube (the WW2 RADAR tube) could melt chocolate and the microwave was born. Nobody needed it, most couldn't afford it originally, but it made its own market. NASA spinoffs are much the same.
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Such as?