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Originally Posted by Scucca  The US, compared to her Western cousins, has been reliant on military R&D to ensure technological progress and therefore growth. However, the opportunities are disappearing, with the innovation increasing focused on finding military use for civilian technologies.
To what extent can the US maintain her technological progress levels by shifting from military expenditure to expenditure on space exploration? |
The shuttle program has focused our exploration on a very limited scope, in my opinion. We should have a moon base, and probes should be crawling out in all directions by now.
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