Astronauts on Mars would be fun, but a dead end like Apollo and the Zheng He fleets: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-succeed-or-fail-on-frontier.html … http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2009/04/polynesians-vs-adam-smith.html …
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Replying to @NickSzabo4
@BrendanEich the Apollo program was essential to bootstrapping the entire computing industry. Reducing it to rocks is absurd1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
you're ignoring the technology required to make it possible. Which has the potential to create entirely new fields
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Replying to @nyxtom @NickSzabo4
It's a good point: we don't know upside benefits. I'm leery of "best of all possible words" post-hoc arguments, though.
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Cold War gets credit (Apollo just a battle in that war). Don't want a new Cold War. Do want sustainable multiplanetary.
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Replying to @BrendanEich @nyxtom
Any challenging task in any unregulated area that gets engineers excited can potentially produce spinoffs.
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