DailySkew Radio Podcast: Obama cancels NASA’s Moon Launch
On today’s DailySkew Radio Podcast, Tony Vahl discusses:
- The news that the Obama Administration has cut funding to the Constellation Program, which was to send U.S. Astronauts back to the Moon by 2020
- Obama has proposed outsourcing missions to the ISS to the private sector and other countries
- some deep thought provoking questions like:
– Which vision of the future will win out – Star Trek or Aliens?
– Is privatizing space exploration a good idea?
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You are correct about space exploration being analogous to colonial explanation.
Allen Carpenter gave me an old "Commercialization of Space" book Kinda based on 2001.
Yes, it's ironic how liberals want the private sector to fund space because it's a "waste", and conservatives see space exploration as an American right and a human necessity.
I don't see true colonization of other planets (or the moon) in our future without:
1) A real technological breakthrough
2)There needs to be a valuable resource out there to motivate corporations and governments. Greed fueled colonization the New World. Altruism doesn't fuel space exploration.
3)Overpopulation or disaster. Let's say 100 years from now, we messed up the earth so bad that humanity HAS to leave.
I still think the desire for space exploration is just for sci-fi fans.
SCI-FI Side-note: Since countries like China can allocate much more to space exploration (since they don't care about their citizens) I wouldn't be surprised if space is dominated by communist or fascist counties in 500 years.