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Originally Posted by ardeegee
I think it does. But then again, I'm not much of a nationalist, so if America wants to plummet back into mediocrity, it will be okay as long as China and India and Brazil and other countries still on the rise choose to have space programs. A thousand years from now, it won't matter which of the various long dead nation-states did the exploration/colonization, only that it was done.
I'll put it more succinctly, though-- if America gives up on space, America has given up on the future.
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I think it's actually bigger than just space, it's the whole society and our focus and the initial posting I made here about (science) Literacy is at the core of it. Without understanding science and history and politics and etc. How can we as a society even make rational choices and plan a future, how can we know what is and isn't important, where we should focus our energies, what we want that future to be and how we get there?