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		arethuza on June 2, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In Case They Didn't Come Back From the Moon Perhaps because "If we can send a man to the moon, why can't we do X" is a pretty terrible argument for most problems. For most analogous engineering projects (e.g. going to Mars) the answer is "because it costs too much".

wlievens on June 2, 2010 [–]

That's not what the he meant. The Apollo Project inspired people to go into sciences and engineering to an extent that nothing since has done. That effect is, after four decades, ebbing away.

wlievens on June 2, 2010 | [–]

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