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spirit, i admit there were probably some inconsistencies and flaws in my argument about the lunar landing. i honestly don't know whether i believe it was a hoax or real. and i wasn't saying war and space exploration go hand in hand, only that there seems to be a pattern of space-related mass announcements happening during unpopular wars.
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The US is always at war.
In some sense the fact that Bush focused on patriotism lead both to the Iraq war and to the Mars idea. Both are bad ideas and a waste of money, but the Iraq war was a lot worse, after all it's no problem to simply cancel the Mars mission.
I would consider the XPrize a much more important space advancement that happened in the last decade.
The ISS is also more important than Bush's Mars idea.
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The expenses scandal may seem disempowering in UK if you love the system statu quo. But the denounces imply that there is more freedom of speech in UK than in some other countries. In other countries, such scandal would remain as a conspiracy theory, undiscovered.
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The amount of money that involved in the expense scandal is insignificant.
The behavior also doesn't create much other damage like increasing the chance that a war gets started somewhere.
It's a similar discussion to Clinton's sex scandal.
Both are mainstream media manufactured scandals about personal failings of politicians but aren't really about much political substance.