The arms race and the space program were very much intertwined. It would be just as reasonable to say we would never have visited the moon if it weren't for the arms race.
I'm not sure what the world would be like if we could afford to spend orders of magnitude more on science for the sake of science instead of science in the sake of "defense".
On the other hand, without something to drive us forward, science tends to be a slow and fractured process.
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Date: 2010-03-22 05:27 pm (UTC)I'm not sure what the world would be like if we could afford to spend orders of magnitude more on science for the sake of science instead of science in the sake of "defense".
On the other hand, without something to drive us forward, science tends to be a slow and fractured process.