The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision

that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.

and of course we've forgotten all the side benefits that came from the space program like computers!

finds this very sad.

People don't seem to like Prometheus Unbound science anymore and it kind of makes me sad.

"All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again."

so say we all

This is depressing to me.

But the space program still exists! We just don't send humans to the moon anymore.

computers pre-date space exploration

sjjh: Yes, we can thank WWII for them.

Or maybe it's that we're going up with the Russians now?

WWII era computers were house sized, 1950 era computers were as big as the LEM and about as expensive

we didn't *need* them to be smaller until Armstrong looked out the window and said - *the automatics can't handle this* & took control

PS - the moon landings were staged @ a secret base in Utah, no humans have stood on the moon

PPS it's a *moon* not a *world*

adjusts his Al foil hat

my turn!

you want to adjust my Al foil hat r2ro?

Now *that's* a conspiracy!

my goodness! you're right CoyotePace: why does r2ro want to adjust my Al Chapeau! something is a foot!