Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa.
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Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa.
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#2>He was a member of the German rocket development team at Peenemünde
Just the guy to be answering ethical questions...
Re: Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa.
#3It certainly reads better than "We need to funnel some money to the guys who build the rockets so that, if the Russians get frisky, we can credibly threaten to can end the world."
Re: Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa.
#4It certainly reads better than "We need to funnel some money to the guys who build the rockets so that, if the Russians get frisky, we can credibly threaten to can end the world."
Or "99% of US Congressmen own shares in the military–industrial(–congressional) complex, so we need any excuse to funnel $trillions over there"
Re: Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa.
#5It certainly reads better than "We need to funnel some money to the guys who build the rockets so that, if the Russians get frisky, we can credibly threaten to can end the world."
Or "99% of US Congressmen own shares in the military–industrial(–congressional) complex, so we need any excuse to funnel $trillions over there"
Man if that's true it really ruined my day. Do you have proof?
Re: Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa.
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or "99% of US Congressmen own shares in the military–industrial(–congressional) complex, so we need any excuse to funnel $trillions over there"
Man if that's true it really ruined my day. Do you have proof?
It's not true. If it was nearly that simple, it would be a lot easier to fix.
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#7>He was a member of the German rocket development team at Peenemünde Just the guy to be answering ethical questions...
Anyone who discounts a thoughtful response based on some other criteria than that found in that response is not someone qualified to comment about ethics.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or "99% of US Congressmen own shares in the military–industrial(–congressional) complex, so we need any excuse to funnel $trillions over there"
Man if that's true it really ruined my day. Do you have proof?
Kevin, we are not in Kansans (or Memphis) anymore!
Top 100 Defense Contractors (most privately owned) 2007: [1]
Further, histories like the one with Chertoff [2] makes U.S. politics really a dirty place: spend trillions of scared US tax payers' money on frying them with cancer in the name of fight on terror with Al Qaeda (quick hint: while we fight them here in US (and of course spend most of your tax money on it), we ally with them somewhere else at the same time [3]).
[1] http://www.govexec.com/magazine/2007/08/top-100-defense-cont...
[2] http://gawker.com/5437499/why-is-michael-chertoff-so-excited...
[3] http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2011/03/27/us-allies-with-al...
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#9I don't know if this makes me cruel, but whenever people talk about donating money to starving children in Africa, I always imagine the following: If I were to donate some amount of money to starving children in an impoverished nation every year I could, theoretically, bring some of them out of starvation. However, these children would then grow into adults, and then these adults would have children of their own. The number of these new children would almost certainly be higher than the number I originally helped bring out of famine, so at that point there would be just as many if not more starving children than we had to begin with. So in my mind the question really goes the other way, how does donating money to buy food for starving children in Africa improve Africa's condition in the long term? What problems caused these nations to produce more children than food and what is being done to eliminate the source of these problems, rather than just the symptoms?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or "99% of US Congressmen own shares in the military–industrial(–congressional) complex, so we need any excuse to funnel $trillions over there"
Man if that's true it really ruined my day. Do you have proof?
Do you need proof? If so you can watch the 60 minutes expose on their insider trading: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7388130n/
They don't just do this in the military industrial complex, they do it across the board, making decisions that benefit their portfolios and constructing their portfolios so their decisions get benefits from laws being passed.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/15/ethically-c...
http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/20...