[Milsurplus] Re: 20 Years into the Future

[Don Merz]

One thing that our so-called leadership in this
country has never appreciated is the value of a
national crusade. In the absence of all-out-war (thank
God), we should always have an 8-10 year BIG PUSH
underway--something that captures the public's
imagination and fires the core R&D strengths of the
USA.

The potential for this kind of effort has never been
greater than it is today. The list of candidate
projects is mouth-watering:

Alternative Energy
Man on Mars
Base on the Moon
Cure for Cancer 
Cure for AIDS
Global Climate Change

Maybe we challenge the Europeans and Asians to come up
with a project of their own and make it into a
pseudo-race. 

But pick something, fund it, promote it and get going.
The country needs that kind of challenge and focus.
And the spin-off benefits from the R&D will probably
be on par with those we got from WWII and the Apollo
program.

My 2 cents...

73, Don Merz, N3RHT


--- Brad Latta <bl_6000 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Now we all know how the evolution of modern
> electronics was accelerated; WWII. The development
> of
> television, crt imaging, monostable multivibrators
> (which eventually led to modern computing), blocking
> oscillators,the magnetron (remember, EVERY modern
> microwave oven has one of these!) etc, the list goes
> on, these basic circuits which were developed by
> engineers & scientists of WWII are still being used
> today. So who is going to invent & develop new
> electonic & radio technologies today that will still
> be used more than 50 years later? If we lower our
> standards of education, where will all research &
> development go? To China? If you took away their
> computer, how would the youth of today be able to
> mathematically compute & design anything??
>                                            Brad
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