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Originally Posted by Moontanman
If we were to invest 10% of this money into an active and aggressive space program the US would own the inner solar system in just a few decades. No one else could possible keep up and we would (for those hawks) effectively own the highest of all high grounds. In warfare who ever owns the high ground has always be thought of as having a tremendous advantage.
So far our military seems to have missed this point. Once we are active and installed in force in places like the asteroids, Jupiter's Lagrange points and even further out the moons of Saturn we (or who ever has the will and drive to do this) will be completely in control of the high ground.
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Makes sense to me except that it cannot, I think, happen. I think the whole world will have to become united into a new society, and that colonizing space cannot occur in our now religiously divided world. The real expansion of humanity out into space colonies may well take more time than our present civilization will last. The competition going on between our societies not just for space exploration but more important for space here and natural resources because of different religions and our numbers crowding the Earth mean, to me, world economic and political problems will proliferate. Compound that with fifteen to twenty thousand nuclear bombs and missiles. I think conditions will have to get much worse. Only after conditions become so desperate that we are forced to adopt a new and more advanced world-belief system can it improve. It will take that to bind the whole world into a single society and new civilization dedicated to space travel, environmental care, population control. and the end of racism.
