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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by colinplamondon on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:20PM (#23253574)
Moon is a Harsh Mistress is definitely what I look to too, also. Even if the US is becoming more authoritarian over time, it's far from the worst Great Power. We do deeply, deeply shitty, immoral things constantly.

Compared to the Soviets, Mao, German Reich #2 / #3, Napoleonic France... the world could do worse for the First nation to take the moon.

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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by carapace on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:55AM (#23255246)
I don't talk about it much because it seems ungentlemanly, but FWIW I'm an American exceptionalist too. I agree with you that, if someone has to be top dog, it should be us rather than the commies, etc.

But I strongly suspect that we won't be able to colonize space without fixing our personal problems.

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