If you believe that the future of the U.S. space program is important to our national security, technology development, and economic future, please take a minute and drop a line to our president to express your concern regarding the lack of interest in the space program that our current administration is showing…

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What will there be for us to write about, if we have no spaceships to fly in?

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As McKee said in response to "what if nothing happens, like in real life" in the great movie Adaptation:

"Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your f****** mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every f****** day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else. Every f****** day, someone, somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake, a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church. Someone goes hungry. Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don't know crap about life! And why the **** are you wasting my two precious hours with your movie? I don't have any use for it! I don't have any bloody use for it!"

Most of the ills of society are related to poverty and either the inability to see beyond it or the decision to usurp society's boundaries. Invention, innovation, and exploration are the primary means of creating wealth. Limiting these, whether through taxation or lack of support, limits everyone's ability to prosper. Turn on the TV - 9.8% unemployment - and as Droopy Dog says, "Going up, Sir?"

let me look for it in the older post from a year or so ago.

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