(August 1, 2013 at 10:18 am)Esquilax Wrote:(August 1, 2013 at 12:49 am)bladevalant546 Wrote: The major thing here is, space is our only way of getting past our issues. To get to space there is so much we have to attain to get there. I fear until we destory "profit" mindset and focus on knowledge and progress we will not improve our situation and our world.
It's not so much about destroying a profit-centric mindset, as it is destroying a short-term mindset, because, let's face it, space is all profit after a while: not is there additional real estate and resources to capitalize on, how much technology initially developed for space travel ended up having commercial applications in the end?
All we need to do is get the business world to stop thinking in terms of the profit that's coming in the next week, month, year or what have you. It's all out there. Waiting.
EXACTLY. Virtually every last modern hi-tech device owes its existence to the space race and to NASA.
Here, I'm gonna post that video I was talking about in its own separate thread because it deserves its own thread. Tyson's passion and drive and absolute furor would put the most fire-and-brimstone preacher to shame, only he's far more eloquent and his message is so much more hopeful, meaningful, promising, and attainable.
