OK, you guys like Star Trek.
Our moon program came during the greatest era of prosperity in the greatest nation on earth with people trained in sciences with work ethics.
Today, money spent on NASA is spent on political clap-trap. Our nation is nowhere near what we were during the height of national strength and resolve. Forty years of national decay and staggering debt have changed the fundamental meaning of what being American means for, what may prove, a majority of our fellow citizens.
Don’t think so? Tell me all about your trip to Mars in four more years.
BTW, if America does go under . . . the lights go out everywhere.
I never claimed I would be on a trip to Mars in four more years. You however claimed that civilization is about to be snuffed out.
If that's the case then you should be able to provide a time frame. Or are you practicing your own version of science fiction, albeit a dystopian one?
The moon program came as the world was ending with communists taking over the world, the Vietnam War and morality was decaying in the '60s.
I remember those years and the 'end of civilization' crowd.
We create more real wealth today than ever before. We feed more people than ever before. We live longer, we live better. By every measure, life has improved since the '60s. Those were NOT the good old days.
/johnny