read this as well. think before you post for your own sake this time.
https://thespacereporter.com/2015/05/neil-de-grasse-tyson-advocates-militarized-space-race-mars/
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read this as well. think before you post for your own sake this time.
https://thespacereporter.com/2015/05/neil-de-grasse-tyson-advocates-militarized-space-race-mars/
How about you stop trying to push humans back into grass huts. Do you know how the internet was created? With MILITARY BUDGETS, just like most of the technology that has ever advanced humanity.
Your weird pacifistic technophobia would stop technological process, and if anyone had listened to you in the past, you would not be using the internet.
Have you heard the phrase "necessary evil"? That's what military research is. That's what space research is. Don't do it and your opponents will.
Childish.
"ARPANET was initially funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
I am not. I cherish engineering. The heart of science. I mention it in my article if you bothered to read it. The internet was created after cumulative efforts of various individuals that eventfully ended up being manifested through the military. If it wasn't for those events some others would have occurred that also fulfilled that goal. It is called a technological tipping point. Same applies to Einstein and all the great discoverers. If it wasn't for them it would be someone due to the cumulative nature of how knowledge and technology emerges.
hur dur...
Yeah. Hitler advanced a lot of things as well. I wonder if you would offer yourself as soap for the "greater good".
I told you to upgrade your arguments mate. :) You are being pathetically pedantic.
Come on, even that link itself makes it clear he was joking. I saw this podcast live back then, he never for once "advocated a militarized space race". Indeed, he was actually criticizing and satirizing military races.
They were merely joking about hypotheticals and how if the Chinese were to build a military base on Mars, NASA will be on Mars well ahead of their 2030 schedule.
The point made was simple - NASA's potential is far greater than currently exploited. That's a pretty fair assessment, given how the original Space Race sent NASA to the moon decades before it was scheduled. This was then done by boosting NASA's budget to 4% of the total GDP back then.
I love your posts, you're one of my favourite authors on Steemit, but I'm bothered by these little confirmation biases that you exhibit here and there. I hope you take it as constructive criticism.
He wasn't joking. He was actually very serious and framed the whole thing under the important of taxation and making America the no.1 nation. He was super patriotic as well. I have clips of the video.
https://www.facebook.com/CyprusFreeThinkers/videos/vb.346542594097/10153798702724098/?type=2&theater
Haha, that's some serious Leni Riefenstahl style propaganda editing right there :)
Watch his speech again and tell me that he is not patriotic about the whole thing. :)
Sure, no doubt about that, after all that's his certain argument for this speech - how NASA funding benefits the US economy.
Still, he never said anything like "let's go to war". He was simply making a point, an accurate one, like I mentioned above. I have seen him make this point in other places where it was more obvious it was hypothetical and satirical.
We should also agree that US war mongering also benefits the US economy and that NASA is part of the US Military. Whether we like to admit it or not, war is the most profitable enterprise in human history.
Nobody ever says "lets go to war". The point is that, along with his other false narratives he us trying to create an over-pumped hype that is not objectively translated in your average tax-payer's mind. Heck, I can even see a bit of Trump's "China, China, China" in his rhetoric. I am sure you do as well.