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The space race, though a side effect of the Cold War, but led to many amazing discoveries and presented humanity has faith in a bright future that awaited earthlings on others the planets. Then two competing superpowers, the USSR and the USA, were according to one: the cosmos is the property of all mankind. Now the Americans have decided to abandon such a concept. Chapter “Citadel of Democracy” Donald Trump Signs New Directive regarding the space policy of his country. Now united States actually intend to conquer and appropriate extraterrestrial space.
President Trump reports that space is now competitive territory, and America will be the first country to will really benefit from this. The new directive states that the US will be a leading space power and will achieve a leading places in the development of the solar system. It is specified that soon of time, NATO astronauts will return to the moon, fly to Mars and even reached the planets Alpha Centauri. Yes Yes exactly. Representatives the American National Space Agency said the other day that plans to send people to the triple stellar before 2069 system in the constellation Centaurus, located 4.4 light years from us. This will be done in order to search for extraterrestrial life forms and suitable for colonizing planets.
Conquer space or PR?
However, many considered this statement no more than PR move eccentric politician. Say, there is no more symbolic for the American man in the street than a promise to return to times of enhanced space exploration, certainly with a race and competitors. True, now compete with NASA in mastering space will be not only Russia, but also China, the European Union and even private American companies like SpaceX. Each of these parties able to seize the initiative from NASA, and the American the government will have to invest huge amounts of money to overtake their real and even invented rivals.
Speaking of money, scientists predict that in the next 30 years global space spending could grow to 3 trillion dollars a year. It’s believed that “cosmic capitalism” will more than pay back these costs, when earthlings begin to mine useful outside the Earth minerals and other resources. According to another point of view, these colossal funds will simply be thrown into the “space wind”, since humanity has not even come close to those futuristic technologies that would allow us to attend other planets and even more so to dig mines on asteroids. We, for example, we don’t even know how aliens travel in Universe, certainly not overcoming the physical space, which infinitely infinitely. Moreover, we don’t even know exactly how this The universe is arranged. And at the same time, we naively believe that we can to fly somewhere and colonize something or even someone …
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