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.