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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 493939" data-attributes="member: 4937">It doesn't matter that developed countries have negative native population growth.  What matters is that as developed countries they feel it uncivilized to shoot people who illegally cross the borders.  By the time that they change thier minds (and believe me before it is over they will change thier minds), it will be too late.  You think what China is doing for population control is draconian?  You just wait and see what Britain and the US are doing in 30 years.Back to space:NASA didn't let us down.  There budgets were gutted back when the Apollo program was still going.  The research labs were gutted.  Most of the best engineers and scientists had thier funding cutted.  The guys that got us to the moon retired.  Kids with 'the right stuff' were told to go to silicon valley - there was no future here.  What was left was typical administrative beaucracy fighting for thier piece of the ever diminishing public pie.  Heck, as the budget diminished, even the quality of the beaucrats slumped, because it became clear to everyone that NASA was a low prestige dead end career choice.  That's not to say that there aren't a few good people left in the administration, but they are getting few and far between.The truth is, we'd have people on Mars now if we wanted to.  We just don't have enough people that want to, and the only cultures that colonize new worlds are the ones were everyone chips in.  It takes a global effort to get into space.Do you realize that the ISS is the first time since the Tower of Babel that the nations of the world have tried to build something significant together?  If we can do this then there is nothing that we cannot do if we turn our minds to it.  This is the single most important event in human history, and they can barely get enough money to turn the lights on.  Heck, even what they are building, impressive as it is, is a mere shadow, a joke, a child's toy, a sand castle, a mere monument, compared to the real working space station that NASA proposed back when they had a friend in the White House.</blockquote>

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