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Veteran Spaceflight Engineer Talks About Governance for Space Exploration (Video)
Meet Tom Moser. (And if that piece of oral spaceflight history wasn't enough, here's a second one.) He's been involved, one way or another, as engineer or manager, with every American manned space flight program since 1963. Now, among other things, he's thinking of ways multiple governments and private companies can share their resources to make future space exploration feasible, which is the main topic of today's video (and transcript), and one we plan to run next week as well.
Every time a governing body gets involved, things get more complicated
Every time a governing body is lacking, things get more complicated. And then one emerges anyway.
The question always ends up being: in whose interest do those with effective governorship act?
I promise you,
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it really is possible for people to cooperate with each other to achieve this.
Do you mean "cooperate" or "compete"? Democratic government is a form of cooperation, you realise? one citizen, one share.
This isn't an anti-enterprise post, just an anti-anti-government one. Pure ideology (e.g. "free market!" and "command economy!") is for modellers, storytellers and fanatics. The modeller knows they're simplifying the problem. The storyteller knows they're making things up completely. The fanatic, unfortunately, realises neither.