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Originally Posted by KaiYeves
Do you want what the normal people think, or what the wierd little girls who don't eat candy and know what nitrox is think?
I'm the former, and my opinion is that space exploration is AWESOME!
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I would expect (well, certainly I would hope!) that all members of this board at least were "normal", .... whatever that actually means .....
What I was referring to was the perception we often seem to get (rightly or wrongly) is that a significant part of the US population are not interested in anything and would rather vote against spending money, unless someone else is likely to achieve something before the US, and then they start asking questions like "why aren't we there doing it first?"
As I think I mentioned, it is funding that makes it happen. If the will to spend the funding isn't there, then neither will the votes be, therefore it doesn't happen politically. Unfortunately, the poor old government happen to get it handed to them that they didn't go out and beat so and so to it and are therfore voted out, even if it wasn' their fault in the first place!
Would that be a view anywhere near the mark? Or are we getting a skewed picture over here?