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dzonga[dead post] ◴[] No.45655728[source]
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chasd00 ◴[] No.45655801[source]
> Boeing or the military industrial complex would handle these things with precision and delivered ahead of time

that's fantasy. I've never heard of either entity delivering on time or on budget let alone ahead of time.

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ramesh31 ◴[] No.45656021[source]
>that's fantasy. I've never heard of either entity delivering on time or on budget let alone ahead of time.

We went from not having a manned space program to landing men on the moon in 8 years. This country used to be able to do things.

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1. shadowgovt ◴[] No.45656143[source]
History suggests the US is pretty good at acting when it perceives existential threat.

I suspect that is a truism the current administration is attempting to leverage. Unfortunately / inconveniently for them, instead of focusing on actual existential threats (climate change), they've tried to rally people behind a pretend existential threat (immigration). The people smell the rat and it seems to be back-firing.

Why they don't do the obvious thing and co-opt the green energy initiative, get into a space-race equivalent with China on solar panels and wind turbines, is a mystery to me.