I don't think V4R was claiming he had invented all that, but that it was during the baby boomer time that things like the internet and cell phone and what not got the govt funding to be invented and improved upon and so on.
The BB's paid for NASA and other scientific breakthroughs.
Unfortunately, since then BB's seem to have gotten more conservative and have stopped funding basic research, and Gen X'ers haven't been able to step up and say "yes we want that - keep funding it" for whatever reason.
The recent cutbacks at NASA - really? we don't have a shuttle? The refusal to fund the Large Hadron Collider. Stuff like that sucks.
I don't know where V4R personally stands on funding NASA; but I think his point was that it was during the BB rule that we got so much stuff funded and invented.
Now personally, I think pitting BB's against Gen-Xers just diverts all of us from the real issue - the growing income disparity; the power of the corporations and people like the Koch brothers; stuff like that - as does the social issue battle. Koch Brothers are fine with libs vs conservatives fighting over abortions because it keeps us from banding together and demanding they pay more in taxes.
.... wow, can I fit any more stuff into one answer? sorry about the kitchen sink of issues there...
My Stance on NASA and Space exploration? All for it.
We need to go back to the Moon, we need to go to Mars. We need to develop the next generation of Shuttle that doesnt just orbit the Earth, but can go back and forth to the Moon. We need to develop Ion Propulsion and many other things as well.
I don't put down NASA... Ever. Have they made Mistakes? Sure... they were to blame for Apollo I and Columbia and Challenger. Poor Oversight and no contingency plans recover a Damaged shuttle from Orbit. Pumping Pure O2 into a tiny capsule loaded with analog electronics and causing a Fire. We know the tragedies all too well.
But to fund these will take HUNDREDS of Billions of Dollars. The big Aerospace companies are the only ones capable of doing this so they will be getting the Majority of those R/D Funds.
Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, Morton Thiokol and all the others will have to make it happen. This will create Jobs, but these will be Engineering jobs, not Liberal Arts. We'll need Physics majors, engineering Majors, Computer Science Majors, Pilots, Metallurgic Engineers and millions of other technology based jobs.
So it will require better education, Sanskrit and Poetry majors need not apply. Liberal Arts Majors need not apply.
Too late for todays graduates who have wasted college studying political Science and Dead Languages. We need Doctors, Scientists and Engineers.
we're 25 years away from it... the new breed needs to start TODAY.
Most of the companies that worked on APOLLO are gone now. We're starting from scratch...
