To be fair, the United States isn't exactly on the bleeding edge of technology when it comes to car design. Besides, the whole idea of a national automobile industry is sort of quaint and outdated in the modern era, where multinational conglomerates with engineers drawn from all over the world dominate.
Perhaps space exploration and rocket science are unrelated to engineering of personal conveyances?
Sure the release is - obviously - making promises that will likely not be kept, however, anything that awakens in the body politic a rediscovery of the virtue of funding space research will be welcomed. I think we can agree that, unlike the automotive industry, the aerospace industry - outside of communications satellites and military hardware - suffers from a lack of funding, particularly in pure research and space exploration.
In other news, the oil industry announced a 100-billion dollar research grant into carbon nanotubes.
Oli G. Archy, head of Chevron says "We believe a giant straw-like tube would significantly advance our knowledge of the known universe and help our neighbours in the solar system acheive democracy."
The ignorance of some posters suprises even me.
Someone points out that Win2K source is available to some people, universities AND the NSA --
it gets completely ignored.
"You can't SEE the source because it is closed blah blah blah."
I am so tired of juveniles trashing Win2K. They ramble on about Linux being more secure but I don't think so. Tell me *please* how to implement IPSec with Linux.
All I know is that I know both operating systems..that this gives me the edge over the whiners.
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To be fair, the United States isn't exactly on the bleeding edge of technology when it comes to car design. Besides, the whole idea of a national automobile industry is sort of quaint and outdated in the modern era, where multinational conglomerates with engineers drawn from all over the world dominate.
Perhaps space exploration and rocket science are unrelated to engineering of personal conveyances?
Sure the release is - obviously - making promises that will likely not be kept, however, anything that awakens in the body politic a rediscovery of the virtue of funding space research will be welcomed. I think we can agree that, unlike the automotive industry, the aerospace industry - outside of communications satellites and military hardware - suffers from a lack of funding, particularly in pure research and space exploration.
In other news, the oil industry announced a 100-billion dollar research grant into carbon nanotubes.
Oli G. Archy, head of Chevron says "We believe a giant straw-like tube would significantly advance our knowledge of the known universe and help our neighbours in the solar system acheive democracy."
The ignorance of some posters suprises even me. Someone points out that Win2K source is available to some people, universities AND the NSA -- it gets completely ignored. "You can't SEE the source because it is closed blah blah blah." I am so tired of juveniles trashing Win2K. They ramble on about Linux being more secure but I don't think so. Tell me *please* how to implement IPSec with Linux. All I know is that I know both operating systems..that this gives me the edge over the whiners.