We Stopped Dreaming

usafpilot07 wrote: Rofl_Mao wrote: impulse418 wrote: Don't worry, weapon development is alive and well. We need to get our kids to support the current conflicts. And encourage them to do well in school. For they might design the next drone. Weapon development is not alive and well. Maybe for small arms and robotics, but not for future aerospace technology. That technology is what solves todays problems on Earth.There has been a push for privately funded technology, but it is all for-profit and private technology simply cannot do what government funded technology does. The NASA got us to the moon in 8 years; they can do the impossible. NASA is an inefficient monster.

How so? I'd say they've done a lot given the budget they have/had.

impulse418 wrote: Don't worry, weapon development is alive and well. We need to get our kids to support the current conflicts. And encourage them to do well in school. For they might design the next drone.

Weapon development is not alive and well. Maybe for small arms and robotics, but not for future aerospace technology. That technology is what solves todays problems on Earth.There has been a push for privately funded technology, but it is all for-profit and private technology simply cannot do what government funded technology does. The NASA got us to the moon in 8 years; they can do the impossible.

That man is awesome.