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Part of me seeing the record and the whole artificial waterfall gave me a sense that it's not a race anymore, we already lost.

On the other hand...we won the space race and we went to the moon, except only 15 guys or thereabout went and for the rest of us didn't mean anything substantial at all.



USA greatest product for the last decades was illusions, that's all.

Illusions, bombs and coups...

And reality always wins over illusions in the end. China will show that with great joy to the people of the world.


Lots of tech was developed and commercialized as a byproduct of the space program. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/20-inventions-we-would...


Very poor return on investment if you look at it only in those terms.




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