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[Johonny]

49. but are space technology is so much better now

why stop at Apollo when are total space infrastructure is so much more advance today. I mean walking on the moon was fun and all but today we have thing like GPS and Rovers driving around Mars. We sent crafts to explore Saturn, Jupiter and beyond. Certainly in space the only thing holding us back is what is holding everything back these days. Huge pointless spending on foreign wars. So I guess I have to go to pre-WII. Ever since WWII while the US has done and hit many high points, it has also wasted a huge amount of its resources on totally pointless combat.

I've read before Thomas Edison's invention of the light bulb as the high point in US history. A) because it showed US innovative and manufacturing power B) because at that point the older powers in Europe totally expected the US and Edison to succeed. basically passing the mantel of technological revolution from Europe to the US. From Edison on ward the US was expected and looked at as a place of innovation.