DoD Buzz | PAS11: A warning from the rocket men
http://www.dodbuzz.com/2011/06/21/pas11-a-warning-from-the-rocket-men/
Although everyone expects the U.S. and world defense budgets to hit a plateau at best and a decline at worst, the aerospace giants with exhibitions here are keeping up an optimistic front: We’ll sell a lot of helicopters, they say, or we’ll focus on executing the programs we already have. But there’s one sector that clearly wants to sound the alarm about the threat it sees in Austerity America: The space guys.
Either we get the hell back into space or we should prepare ourselves to join the passenger pigeon, the dodo, the dinosaurs, and the Permian megafauna. Like any time now. You think that's alarmist? Space is the only thing that can save us, our civilization, and perhaps even all of Earthly life now.
Although everyone expects the U.S. and world defense budgets to hit a plateau at best and a decline at worst, the aerospace giants with exhibitions here are keeping up an optimistic front: We’ll sell a lot of helicopters, they say, or we’ll focus on executing the programs we already have. But there’s one sector that clearly wants to sound the alarm about the threat it sees in Austerity America: The space guys.
Either we get the hell back into space or we should prepare ourselves to join the passenger pigeon, the dodo, the dinosaurs, and the Permian megafauna. Like any time now. You think that's alarmist? Space is the only thing that can save us, our civilization, and perhaps even all of Earthly life now.