tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post6754113719444834021..comments2024-02-20T15:17:48.594+11:00Comments on A.E.Brain: The (Lack of) US Manned Space ProgramZoe Brainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-3586357203844277092011-06-19T22:32:40.404+10:002011-06-19T22:32:40.404+10:00Anonymous; human populations limit themselves, as ...Anonymous; human populations limit themselves, as the 21st century will clearly demonstrate and as has been reasonably routinely observed in the 20th century. China's population will be shrinking in a few years time, so will India's. The population of the USA is merely stable; only immigration is contributing to growth. The majority of Europe is shrinking, as is pretty much the entirety of the former territories of the USSR. <br /><br />Add to this the fact that sex-selective abortions (possibly the least charming innovation of the 20th or any other century) have resulted in far fewer women being born, so the future population will be less capable of reversing this decline.<br /><br />"The Population Bomb" has been proven wrong on all of its original predictions, and in the 25 ensuing years each updated edition with updated predictions has also proven to be wrong.<br /><br />Chris Phoenix... no! No, that's the worst thing you could do! A complex of politics and corporate bureaucracy works fine for companies that just want to extract rents, but it's poison to innovation and productivity!wreckagenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-31471159469745927922011-06-19T16:17:06.104+10:002011-06-19T16:17:06.104+10:00The US has a manned space program. It's called...The US has a manned space program. It's called SpaceX. We just have to fund it... direct to it a fraction of the government pork that's being spent on other US corporations... and we will have a manned space capability again.<br /><br />BTW, the founder intends to send people to Mars. In the long run, this isn't just a LEO taxi.Chris Phoenixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13368959552769808835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-50582950940229221382011-06-19T04:43:01.881+10:002011-06-19T04:43:01.881+10:00You are missing the point. Governments are about c...You are missing the point. Governments are about corruption, not getting things done. The media is nothing more than the operant conditioning marketing arm of the Governmnet to manipulate the people. <br /><br />Why not work on real needs like limiteding the world population?<br />CSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com