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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism: Spaceflight for Comrades
 
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Tighclops posted:

This is seriously cool, I always wondered why they didn't put out something like that and welp there it is

Research spending in any field will create spinoffs. Like defense spending resulted in the internet, GPS and duct tape. The space program itself started with the desire to bomb stuff. That's not an argument to increase defense spending.

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Larry Parrish posted:

internet was DARPA, and wasn't GPS too? DARPA is a (very imperialist) argument for only funding government agencies

It is part of the department of defense.

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