Destination: Alpha Centauri

[Irishman]

man on the moon - a president had to die to keep that project alive
LHC - last I checked, not built in the U.S.
fusion research - keeping physicists employed for decades
ISS - took decades longer than it should have
Scaled/Virgin - private enterprise

Sorry, but you're just cynical about Americans.

I'm not. When we need to, we come together.

 

[JarodRussell]

man on the moon - a president had to die to keep that project alive
LHC - last I checked, not built in the U.S.
fusion research - keeping physicists employed for decades
ISS - took decades longer than it should have
Scaled/Virgin - private enterprise

Sorry, but you're just cynical about Americans.

I'm not. When we need to, we come together.

Yeah, but nobody needs to, it seems. The man on the moon was the result of the Cold War, don't forget that.

 

[Irishman]

man on the moon - a president had to die to keep that project alive
LHC - last I checked, not built in the U.S.
fusion research - keeping physicists employed for decades
ISS - took decades longer than it should have
Scaled/Virgin - private enterprise

Sorry, but you're just cynical about Americans.

I'm not. When we need to, we come together.

Yeah, but nobody needs to, it seems. The man on the moon was the result of the Cold War, don't forget that.

Then it will be up to private enterprise to do it.

 

[Christopher]

LHC - last I checked, not built in the U.S.

So? Who says it has to be the US that undertakes an Alpha Centauri project?

 

[sojourner]

^No one, but we were talking in reference to a four year political system which implied the U.S. At which point Irishman gave a list of projects and implied that they were done by the U.S.

Sorry, but you're just cynical about Americans.

I'm not cynical, I'm a realist.

 

[Irishman]

^No one, but we were talking in reference to a four year political system which implied the U.S. At which point Irishman gave a list of projects and implied that they were done by the U.S.

Sorry, but you're just cynical about Americans.

I'm not cynical, I'm a realist.

I did not imply all those projects were undertaken by the US.

What I suppose I was trying to say is that, in every country that participates in projects like the ones I mentioned, its people value that type of work. That is not dependent on America.