The Right Stuff seems to paint the picture that in the 50's the Air Force had it right the whole time and NASA screwed it up. In the 90's, the AF seemed to have huge sucesses in space deployment, except for projects where congress made them do things NASA's way. Now in the 21st century, the Air Force is funding another round of low cost expendible rockets (they have too, they're running out of old ICBM's and the shuttle can't lift a MILSTAR), and NASA seems to only be interested in doing things the least cost effective way possible.
I'm not saying that total militarization of space is the answer, but someone needs to do SOMETHING about NASA.
Of course, there's money going into all these medical problems. You get diminishing returns on funding past a certain point for any kind of research, so it makes more sense to look at many things at once.
That's all only opinion. Q3 and UT generally have about even online usage. I think that general opinion follows the trend. And while Blizzard sells quite a few titles, Diablo 2 was IMHO totally uninspired. So was Starcraft AKA "Goblins In Space", which was inferior to Total Annihilation. Except for Diablo and Warcraft, you can not convince me that Blizzard has any more inventiveness than Id. In fact, I would say that Blizzard has become MORE stagnant than Id; that is, if I bought into your ideas in the first place.
I for one have become more interested in first person shooters as the technology improves, and I think the majority of gamers agree.
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I have a feeling that if you call this the "real reason for your SO's birthday party, you'll just be celebrating getting you ass kicked...
The Right Stuff seems to paint the picture that in the 50's the Air Force had it right the whole time and NASA screwed it up. In the 90's, the AF seemed to have huge sucesses in space deployment, except for projects where congress made them do things NASA's way. Now in the 21st century, the Air Force is funding another round of low cost expendible rockets (they have too, they're running out of old ICBM's and the shuttle can't lift a MILSTAR), and NASA seems to only be interested in doing things the least cost effective way possible. I'm not saying that total militarization of space is the answer, but someone needs to do SOMETHING about NASA.
Of course, there's money going into all these medical problems. You get diminishing returns on funding past a certain point for any kind of research, so it makes more sense to look at many things at once.
I for one have become more interested in first person shooters as the technology improves, and I think the majority of gamers agree.