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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 493218" data-attributes="member: 4937">I've been avoiding this thread because it is too depressing of a subject to talk about.NASA is dead.  It hasn't been fully funded in 15 years.  It hasn't a friend anywhere in Washington.  The best scientists have left in frustration.  Those that remain discourage good talent from joining (including my wife, who was told thier was no future in space careers).  They have nothing.  They are working on a shoe string.  The American people aren't interested in space.  They spend more money each year on golf than on space ships.  Historians of the future will look back on the early 1970's as the beginning of the second dark age.  Although technology continues to advance on some fronts in astounding ways (as it did in the Dark Ages I might add), the plain truth is that we have lost our way.  We have given up on true progress.  We haven't the will to accomplish anything difficult or far sighted.   We (me and you, meaning I suspect under 30 Gen-Xer's for the most part) have had our inheritance stolen from us.   It will probably be 400 years before we get a man to Mars, if we ever do.   I have come to the conclusion that it is very difficult for a sentient race to get off of the rock it evolved on.  There is no biological necessity for doing so.  No evolved reason to move on, to look up, to jump off into that dark cold void. This is the second middle ages.  The age that will be scorned by those that come after us.If there is any hope, it is that some rich geeks will get together and privately do what publicly there is no will for.</blockquote>

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