politics VS technology/ Anti-intellecualism+Space Militarization Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: politics VS technology/ Anti-intellecualism+Space Militarization
# 7651 byprometheuspan@... on April 13, 2006, 6:19 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
> An useful spaceplane is entirely feasible now, and has been for a
> while. Politics is what's crippling the design process.
> Buran suffered from political decisions that it must look like the
> American Shuttle. MAKS died because of political decisions that
Buran
> was the thing to fly.
This is an important point that a lot of people miss. The Shuttle
is garbage 1970s technology (at best.) We could do lots better.
The reason we aren't isn't the technology, its the Republicans.
PNAC and etcetera.