Its in our nature to explore. Not through some automated contraption but in person.Babies start to explore the world on their terms as soon as they can crawl. Teenages do the same usually breaking away from their parents and to figure out who they are. Explorers of the past did it to and fully embraced the danger. .
Yet, we gave up. Not when the shuttles stopped but when congress started using NASA as a budget punching bag to avoid dealing with Social Security, Entitlements, Medicare, etc..
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China hasn’t given up. The rover is step one. They are planning on send people as some point. We chickened out and gave up. They didn’t.
.So, yeah. Good for them. It should embarass us but it won’t. Most don’t care that we gave up.
Its in our nature to explore. Not through some automated contraption but in person.Babies start to explore the world on their terms as soon as they can crawl. Teenages do the same usually breaking away from their parents and to figure out who they are. Explorers of the past did it to and fully embraced the danger. .
Yet, we gave up. Not when the shuttles stopped but when congress started using NASA as a budget punching bag to avoid dealing with Social Security, Entitlements, Medicare, etc..
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China hasn’t given up. The rover is step one. They are planning on send people as some point. We chickened out and gave up. They didn’t.
.So, yeah. Good for them. It should embarass us but it won’t. Most don’t care that we gave up.