OT Artemis ii

[SithHappens]

Actually had a look and the discovery of the titanic was funded by the US Government

A quick Google also shows lots more in the benefits from space exploration column, a big one being innovation of Solar Powe technologies.

[ramAnag]

Actually had a look and the discovery of the titanic was funded by the US Government

A quick Google also shows lots more in the benefits from space exploration column, a big one being innovation of Solar Powe technologies.

Yep, okay. I surrender.

While you’re on Google compare the amount spent on the space race with finding a cure for some of the diseases mentioned earlier. I’m still not certain we have the balance right but accept there may be an, as yet undiscovered, overlap. That would be nice.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Yep, okay. I surrender.

While you’re on Google compare the amount spent on the space race with finding a cure for some of the diseases mentioned earlier. I’m still not certain we have the balance right but accept there may be an, as yet undiscovered, overlap. That would be nice.

This aspect of course assumes that it is good to find a cure for dread diseases. Prolonging life beyond the three score years and ten is perhaps not that great a priority - ask Thomas Malthus. In an already overcrowded and under resourced world is it desirable to prolong lives of people by draining state resources and spending more on research into disease prevention, thus exaggerating the overcrowding and dependency culture.

Bear in mind I pose this question as someone currently undergoing cancer treatment (and grateful for it), but also as someone questioning whether, in a wider sense, it is logical to do so, and in doing so perhaps creating a long term surplus of resource guzzlers. Switzerland anyone? Soylent Green maybe?