I somewhat agree with you. At least a small bit. The problem is, is that wars create massive increases in technology and knowledge. Sure, we may have got there anyway but it’s kind of doubtful to me that we ever would have bothered yet. It took the cold war and the fact of the Russians launching Sputnik to get the United States off their asses and do anything at all. Without that, what would have been the incentive, outside of science fiction stories, to go to space? Not for we here but for our political masters? Even today, you’d find it pretty damn hard to convince anyone in the government about how much we could really make from space technology. There’s a huge segment of the population that still believe that the space program gave us absolutely nothing and just wasted money and resources and that’s a damn shame.
