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Originally Posted by John F. Kerry
if u want a perfect example of a country that totally screwed itself with the "it would be better spent on earth" bulshit look at the UK- they had a satelite launcher called blue streak and were probably some of the best engineers of space tech in the world. until socialist labor party policies took away all their funding and gave it to add another month of welfare benefits and as a result britain has NO space program today....
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Errr, a little simplistic there I'd say.
Blue streak was a ballistic missile launcher for nuclear weapons... got cancelled because domestic problems is more important than nukes.
The first stage was modified and used to launch sattelites for the Europa programme which was a collaberation between UK, France and Germany.
Plus I still maintain that real problems on planet earth are more important than the space travel fantasies of rich peeps... as interesting and eventually necessary they may be... I can't remember anyone having died cos they couldn't get to the moon.