It was 35 years ago today that human beings first walked on another world, fulfilling all those science fiction comics and stories I read as a kid. Happy Moon Day to Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and all other humans!
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004
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Japan in the 60's built out their high-speed rail infrastructure. We built 363' high penes that are now corroding as outdoor museum pieces.
http://www.gilscottheron.com/lywhitey.html
As a high-tech jobs program, Apollo succeeded, I just wish the end product would have been more useful for us down here on earth. Most the useful spinoffs Space Program supporters cite would have also been spunoff from other high-tech initiatives like light-rail, alternate energy, or whatever, and who knows what other useful research initiatives were killed to put whitey on the moon.
Posted by: Troy | Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 01:41 PM
"Whitey"?
Posted by: Scott | Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 02:37 PM
The term "whitey" is from the GSH piece I linked to; GSH is the same guy who brought us "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised".
It's shorthand for looking at which segments of our society the space-race (and really associated military buildup) benefitted most, and the tradeoffs our society made to mount this feat of engineering. GSH's POV is interesting to me, since I find myself agreeing that our national spending priorities are screwed up and have been since the mid-60's at least.
Posted by: Troy | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 12:31 AM
It's also my Mom's birthday, and the same day as the landing of the first Viking lander.
There are lots of intangibles from the space race. I wonder how many kids were turned onto science and technology that might not have been otherwise (I know I was)
Posted by: markd2 | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 07:51 AM