Re: Back to the moon? When?

On 16 Nov, 19:04, Fred J. McCall <fmcc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:Why doesn't the US make digital cameras? The answer is that the
:Japanese are better at it.
:

If that's true why are the Japanese 'offshoring' their manufacture to
China, Malaysia, and Taiwan? It's all about costs and who currently
has market penetration.

Business goes to where it is cheapest. The US also has the opportunity
to outsource. In fact Asia (East Asia) is on a conveyor belt. Japan
has a fully Western standard of living. South Korea, Taiwan are close
behind. The other countries of Asia are in the process of catching up.
Vietnam is catching up despite the attentions Uncle Sam gave it. If
Japan can do it fully, other Asian countries can as well.
:
:Unless you are a racist you cannot but conclude that if every economy
:were organized efficiently, and increasingly they are, the odds are
:stacked up against the US.
:

Preposterous remark and a logical fallacy into the bargain.

:
:You say Spanish is an obsession of mine.
:

Only because it is.

:
:Let us look at these figures again. With Latin America the US would be
:of comperable strength to the leading Asian nations. If you are not
:prepared to learn Spanish you are confronted with 300 million against
:billion strong nations.
:

And everyone in Europe speaks every language in Europe? I don't think
so. They don't speak the same language all over India. They don't
speak the same language all over China.

No, they are in fact developing English as a common language. You
cannot learn every European language. This is different in America
where there are only a few languages.

You have missed the main point and this is a question of understanding
the world. The US clearly does not understand the Middle East. There
is a German proverb "Probieren gehy ueber studieren" - proving goes
above studying. This means that if you have a civil war and ethic
cleansing, you either don't understand the Middle East, or if you do
you are a criminal who should stans trial at the Hague.

There is one significant fact about the EU that seems to escape you
and that is there is freedom of movement. There is no freedom of
movement in America. Indeed the right wing is taking about building a
wall along the Mexican Frontier.

The right wing talks too about Syria. The border with Iraq is desert,
the onus is on the US to build a wall. The US seems to be baulking at
the cost of a Mexican wall, yet it expects Syria to build a wall. This
on top of the refugee crisis that the US has created.

The conclusion that can be drawn I think is that the US does not
understand the Middle East, the Far East or Latin America.

:
:The 1Kg seed will require some pretty
:advanced knowledge. The US is ensuring that bilogical excellence will
:not reside there.
:

Yet when you look at the research and product development in this
area, most of it seems to be here. Once again we've seen a
demonstration of posting by a Silly ASS.

Research is done all over the world. I think though we can form a few
conclusions Basically until space resources can be exploited in some
way it is useless to think of going much beyond what we are doing now.
To get to Mars (manned) you will need an even bigger rocket than the
one to take you to the Moon. 10 - 100 times the cost. Everyone except
the NASA brass realizes this.
:
:OK stem cells are irrelevant, in themselves, to
:artifical life. They are relevant though in terms of which countries
:establish themselves as centers of excellence.
:

Not so much. Once again you've read something superficial and
misunderstood it.

It is not superficial. The US is being run by a bunch of Bible Belt
fundamentalists. In the Far East there is no conflict between science
and religion. I think this could be very significant in many ways. Of
course I am thinking here long term.

You still have not explained to me how you can have a space program if
you believe there is nothing beyong 3KPa.


- Ian Parker
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