I need all you space fans out there to accept that the reason we went to the Moon in 1969 and we aren't going back now is that the Apollo rockets were a side effect of building nuclear-tipped ICBMs and they were intended as a live demonstration of how easily we could nuke Moscowhttps://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1306748423404687360 …
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Only reason to do that was to put missiles on the Moon as an unstoppable second strike.
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There were like... plans.
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US: "This cost seventy bazillion pounds." USSR: "Hey look! They're just bouncing around... one of them forgot to seal the other hatch... seven of them are now dead!"
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There's a lot that's interestingly fucked up about Soviet spaceflight But one of the things about them was that they didn't try to whitewash that this was a military competition nearly as much as we did with all our guff about "peaceful exploration"
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I was under the impression that p much all widespread scientific advancement came from military spending with MAYBE the exception of Bell Labs?
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True. And when I was in grad school in the very early 1980s, the nascent internet was called “DARPAnet”. I don’t know when the D for “Defence” vanished down the collective memory hole, but there it is. Or was.
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"Look, this Mutually Assured Destruction is great and all but I was thinking, what if we made it mutual-er?"
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It has always been about domination.
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The idea that “basic science” has ever been driven by curiosity and not other things is Cold War propaganda