If the Space Race inspired US society to value science more, maybe the rise of India & China will turn out a very positive thing for the US.
@wooster I don't know of any realistic threats of resource exhaustion. After all, there's plenty of sunlight to go around.
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@paulbaumgart And we're under constant threat of habitat exhaustion through natural disaster until we move into space. -
@paulbaumgart eg a large rock lighting our atmosphere on fire.
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@paulbaumgart Threat is under-investing in the science necessary to avoid resource exhaustion, which can come from other areas than energy. -
@paulbaumgart Although, as an example: say we ran out of coal and oil 50 years ago. What would we be doing now?
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