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Again with Von Braun, him and his engineers - none of them wanted to work on military weapons. They wanted to work on spaceflight technology.
And there’s the really upsetting thing. Does the plaque on the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander read “We beat the Soviets”? Did Kennedy give a speech about how we’d beat the Soviets to the moon?
SLS will be launching an Orion spacecraft around the moon, currently planned for late next year, and much of the hardware is already built for that mission. Where’s the space race pushing this, if it’s so necessary to do these kinds of things?
But again, NASA isn’t dead, the flyby of the Moon is set to happen next year, and Musk (SpaceX) and NASA both still have their sights on Mars - if a Cold War is necessary for these things to happen, then where is this cold war?
How come the greatest innovations in aerospace since Apollo are coming by in the last few years by a private company with no political adversary, no war, no cold war rivalry?
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tag we could slap on this for humor.@Vinyl Fluff
Edison, Robert Goddard, Einstein, Hawking, Tsilkovsky, Schrodigner, Faraday, Maxwell, Newton, Tesla all the great musicians and painters, sculpters and writers, I don’t know of any that needed war, poverty or strife to do their work. Even Von Braun only dabbled in war as a means to find funding for what he wanted to do for peace.
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Also, with job satisfaction, political stability, and racial harmony at higher levels; and war, poverty, and other societal ills either rare or non-existent, the necessity that birthed many inventions simply wasn’t there.
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Don’t forget Vinyl’s DJ equipment.
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Basically, I like to think of Equestria as being somewhere around the 1800s technology-wise, only with a few analogues for modern devices due to their advent of magic.