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Go Curiosity !!! just watched lift off vid and it got away to a good start. Now just got to keep the fingers crossed for 9 months or so ( sounds like a pregnancy !! )
Re the pro\con military thing. It's a shame it's necessary for sure, the resources of both hardware and people could be far more usefully deployed for humanitarian purposes if it wasn't for all the global bickering. But have to confess there has been some benefits from past conflicts. Plastic surgery owes much to practises develeoped in the first and second world wars and Korea in particular. And obviously wars tend to speed up technology developments which often have spinoffs to the rest of us.
But I'd still rather have more resources spent on peaceful research. Imagine having an 'army' of researchers using the $$$ spent on current military needs. Even 10% ...... <sigh>
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