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Originally Posted by spike420211
So this is like Carl Sagan documented as saying f**k the space program?
LOL.
He was on a trend tho.
22% of all kids in US living below poverty line.
Source: prolly liberal, but the highest up on Google, close enuf.
No, he's saying the government (probably Reganite) has let the space program languish. As in they need more funding. The "Star Wars" he refers to is a Nuclear Defense program. Super lol, but it's probably a large part of why we now have missile to missile defense systems to knock scud etc missiles out of the sky for Israel.
He made an error wrt to poverty that is really common. They'll take a trend and extrapolate it out well into the future which is pretty nonsensical even though he's obviously a smart dude.