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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 493259" data-attributes="member: 6390">Oh-oh, I wanna add my thoughts to this!  No kidding.  That's because, when you get right down to it, they lost thier balls somewhere.  They spend waay too much on crap.  Look at the specs on that Mars probe.  I could have built that thing my first year of Electronic Engineering!  That think was a hunk of crap!  I don't feel a bit sorry for them.  Your right, no doubt, but they did it to themselves.  They let us down, and now they are paying the price.  They could have launched a Mars probe in the 1970's after the failure of that one probe (I can't remember the name offhand) but instead, they back off of exploration almost completely.  Voyager.  So what?  Instead of learning from the mistakes, they gave up, and let everyone down.  People my age (around 30) are intersted in space.  It's the movers and the shakers on capitol hill (most of them are 50+ and more interested in thier won little fuedal kingdoms than anything truly useful.  I'm just disallusioned with NASA.  They couldn't launch a rowboat right, as far as I'm concerned.  A lot of the lack of interest, is, let's face it, every time we get excited, they drop the ball.  They have no real interest in other planets, they'd rather suck up cash and make excuses, so we quit caring.[QUOTE}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.</blockquote>There is some truth on this.  But it's not us, the common people.  It's called "economic feasability" and "fear".  Many people are afraid of new things, people that should not be.  They worry about jobs, the children, whether or not it will turn thier brains to go, ect.  Companies see no reason to do a lot of research in making new technology.  It's much more cost effective and profit generating to improve something new.  (Think DVD's are new?  In the 1970's there were Laser Disks.  They were the size of records.  All a DVD is a smaller one of those)  But, for the most part, I definately agree with you there.  Everthing that has come out has merely been an improvement on EXISTING tech.  So what.  Impress me.  Pretty much.  Let's all give the Baby Boomers a hand.  Rather than take risks, it was easier to gut thier revolution for a BMW and a pair of Nike's, then keep anyone from doing anything that they did not.  Thanks guys.  Remind me to put you in the same old folks home you put Gramma in.  The people who have the will are usually "gotten rid of" or if you are a real hard charger, you are "overqualified" and end up working at McDonald's.  Some of us have the will, but the people who make the decisions are small men, in the places where we need giants.  Lack of resources?  Overpopulation?  We have 4 choices.  War.  Plague.  Suboceanic Colonization, or Space Colonization.  We need to move outward, or we all might as well vanish up each others butts.  But we won't, because it's easier to squat in a garbage heap then build a new house.  We can change it, but we have to desire it, and it will not be easy.  Let's face it, nobody likes to take the risks, and those that do are NEVER put in positions of power.  Don't rock the boat.  I wish I could argue with you, but I can't.  They are.  Check out the Hilton Hotel's plans.  There is always hope.  Maybe I'll apply to be a janitor.[/QUOTE]

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