Friday, April 12, 2013

Russia to spend $50 billion on space research

Russia is significantly boosting investment in space research while the United States is cutting back. Interesting.

9 comments:

Tyler said...

I hope Russia makes a significant advance, because it might cause American right-wingers to get scared and demand new spending on space research.

Not sure if you guys have already read it, but Sumner fired a shot at MMT yesterday: http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=20705

The Rombach Report said...

Stephen Hawking says space exploration is key to saving humanity.......

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/11/stephen-hawking-space-exploration-humanity_n_3061329.html

mike norman said...

Sumner's funny.

We'll sick Fullwiler on him. :)

mike norman said...

We're handing over our space program to Elon Musk and Richard Branson. Space tourism for rich people. What a joke.

Matt Franko said...

Tyler,

Right, it's all "an illusion" to him.... he's not lying imo.


Tom Hickey said...

The fact that people listen to SS just shows the abysmal level of ignorance out there.

The Rombach Report said...

The most immediate reason to into space and back to the moon is to collect Helium 3 (H3) which is abundant on the moon's surface due to solar wind bombardment, but extremely rare on earth. H3 would be the perfect fuel for a fusion reactor. This is why Russia and China want to go to the moon. After the moon, then on to Mars which will require fusion rockets, so gotta get that H3 first. Once we get to Mars, it will be much easier to engineer a breathable atmosphere with fusion technology.

www.explainingthefuture.com/helium3.html

Tom Hickey said...

Yeah, at this rate in a few years the American Empire will be a memory like the British Empire.

Roger Erickson said...

Effort would be better spent mapping the "space" between the average voter's ears?

How about mapping the system "space" existing between 535 Congresspeople?

That unbridged Congressional "space" coincides pretty well with our national Output Gap.