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Originally Posted by Slon
We need to do everything unless there is a reason against it?
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I don't see why we wouldn't. If there's no good reason
not to do something then we should do it.
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I thought it worked more in the sense that we only do that which is necessary/has reasons for it.
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The space program had a reason.
You might not like that reason, and
you might not agree with it, but that doesn't mean it isn't a perfectly legitimate reason.
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Let's start with the huge cost to taxpayers.
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Okay. Give me an itemized cost for the Apollo Program and let me know what your gripes are with it. Do you even
know what it cost?
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Is it an acceptable one in your's?
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I've already answered that question.
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That's not how it works. You don't launch an operation and then try to justify it by coming up with goals for it. You create a goal and then create the operation to accomplish it.
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Clearly a goal was created, namely, create, fund, organize, and execute a research and development program to take men from the Earth, land them on the Moon, and return them safely. Clearly the operation to execute that mission was accomplished.
That much is already well established. It's history.
So what's your problem?
I tell you why we did it, you tell me I'm not giving you enough or satisfactory information.
I provide you with a link where you can educate yourself further, you tell me it's too much for you to read.
I ask you to work with me and let me know what types of information you'd like to see, you tell me it doesn't work that way.
What exactly is it that you're fishing for besides a dumbass argument?
Like I said, I'm not going to argue with you. If you want to argue go argue with Steve.
If you want to ask questions I'll do my best to answer them. I'll even do the research for you that you're too lazy to do yourself.