Re:The Lost History of Helmand (2009)
by vonmoltke on Monday February 10, 2014 @11:03AM
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Its interesting how the Apollo Program, starting just a few short years after that speech, has become a driving force for the technocrats to push such projects. How many times has the something like the phrase, "we put a man on the moon, we can do this" been uttered in relation to some omnibus R&D project?
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Re:The Lost History of Helmand (2009)
by dredmorbius on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @03:12AM
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It's also about this time that the awareness started to develop that there were problems with no technical solution. This was a key point of many of Garrett Hardin's writings. Nuclear weapons and supersonic transport were two of these. Another concept of his was that "just because we've got the technological capability to do something doesn't mean that we should do it".