Re:Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered
by wallace_f on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:06PM
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I really think the lesson is one of competition. Without it, we'd never have the V2, and even if we did have the V2 we would still never have had the Saturn rockets. The Russians would never have developed the RD-180, and so SpaceX and BO would never exist.
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Re:Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered
by na85 on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @07:48PM
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WWII is what gave us the V2. Reducing the deadliest conflict in human history to "competition" is... Troubling.
Ultimately what seems to drive us forward (IMHO), is finding new ways to kill each other.