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Re:Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest su... by ams6110 on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:44PM (#14985739)
The Apollo program did result in significant advances in science and technology.

Had we put the same resources into solving other more earthbound problems would we be better off? Maybe we could have developed a better, standard, safer nuclear power plant design and could have left coal and oil behind 30 years ago. And we would not be discussing climate change or at least not the idea that it was man-made.

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Re:Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest su... by throwawaycanada on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:17AM (#14986546)
We have designs. The problem is they aren't also capable of creating nuclear weapons so they are irrelevant to NATO. IIRC.
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