You are X.
You think you are intelligent. (Everybody does)
You think that people that agree with you are also intelligent. (Everybody does) That's pretty much the underpinning for every Internet flame war ever. Flame Wars come when the last one is flipped:
You think the All intelligent people Agree with you
As many of the comments on this thread show Gov't work is now (believed to be)synonymous with Military and Weapons work, and that wasn't always the case.
In the heyday of the Space Race there were huge opportunities for non-weapons application development that only the Government was doing. The Government was on the cutting edge of nearly all Technologies. Now the Private Sector owns the leading edge of nearly all Non-military/weapon tech. The Einsteins of the nation just aren' going to work for the second best out of patriotism.
This is one of the reasons the Gov't is throwing money back into Space Exploration, they are hoping hoping to revive some of the spirit of the Space Race, by giving the Up-and-Comers a Non-Military goal.
That ranks right up there with Jules Verne, Victor Appleton (The house name author of five generations of Tom Swift Novels), and (sadly) George Orwell in the Accurate Vision of the Future category.
Hmmm...
First Game was Astro-warrior for the Sega Master System
First Computer game was the ever classic Wolfenstein 3D
And teh world just got cooler and more bloody from there:-D
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As many of the comments on this thread show Gov't work is now (believed to be)synonymous with Military and Weapons work, and that wasn't always the case. In the heyday of the Space Race there were huge opportunities for non-weapons application development that only the Government was doing. The Government was on the cutting edge of nearly all Technologies. Now the Private Sector owns the leading edge of nearly all Non-military/weapon tech. The Einsteins of the nation just aren' going to work for the second best out of patriotism. This is one of the reasons the Gov't is throwing money back into Space Exploration, they are hoping hoping to revive some of the spirit of the Space Race, by giving the Up-and-Comers a Non-Military goal.
That ranks right up there with Jules Verne, Victor Appleton (The house name author of five generations of Tom Swift Novels), and (sadly) George Orwell in the Accurate Vision of the Future category.
Hmmm... First Game was Astro-warrior for the Sega Master System First Computer game was the ever classic Wolfenstein 3D And teh world just got cooler and more bloody from there :-D