[quote=@Host] [@Zeal] I don't get the reference, but cool. 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. [/quote] War applications lead to inventions, not weapons themselves leading to it. Important difference. MORE importantly, that's COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN ONLY DOING IMPORTANT SCIENCE BECAUSE YOU WANT MILITARY SIDE EFFECTS. Creating radio to better communcate during war is one thing, only working to improve radio because you want to weaponize radio waves to liquify someone is totally different. The reason we do nothing with space is because the past 10 years havecut it's funding to the poin it CAN'T do anything. Space is icredibly important for anyone realizing there won't be a rapture any time soon because we're slowly making the planet uninhabitable, and we know literaly nothing about the universe we exist in when the whole is considered. How do ou suggest we learn about antimatter on earth? Or other models of life without them coming to us? Space is the mos important thing we can invest in, and not to further destroy the planet we'll be stuck on until we make enough progress with space. At least neuter him.