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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 respectfully disagree. You place too much emphasis on exploration/colonization. What matters most is the information gained per dollar spent. We learn far more from projects like the Hubble space telescope and the Large Hadron Collider, on a per dollar basis, than we we learn from planning a mission to Mars.