[@Zeal]
I don't get the reference, but cool.

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New weapons aren't necessary. The space program should remain about space, it shouldn't be about weapons. I don't believe in the whole killing that guy, though.
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Weapon creation is what leads a good amount of scientific progress. We became proficient in nuclear fusion after the Manhattan Project in order to destroy Japan. Now a good portion of the world uses nuclear power facilities in order to gain energy. It's also led us to nuclear fusion, a clean source of future energy if we can learn how to contain it. What does the space program even do? I looked at NASA's website, and they don't even know what makes space investments profitable. We do nothing with space; we have the Hubble Telescope to get images, we have the ISS (that does who knows what; it's really nothing we don't have here other than low gravity, which doesn't contribute significantly. There's not much else to do with space.