The problem with 'scaling back' NASA is that it's not like a factory or a bunch of servers that you can just switch back on in 5 years with a bit of maintenance.
If you cut funding and they have to cut engineering jobs, you're going to lose talent: experience that may not return when you decide you're in another space race.
Are you kidding me? War is news worthy, why shouldn't a "natural extension" of a war be news worthy to the people who are interested in that particular extension, case in point:
I'm not sure how you got rated as insightful.
I'm curious as to whether an array of structures as described could feasibly mitigate the waves by using destruction interference, even in the case of a continuous (re: China) coast, or at least for a certain portion of it.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
