NASA had Apollo-era plans to send humans to Mars and Venus

How so? My point was that while the Cold War was happening, we did invest that money is some book learnin’ and social infrastrucure in this country, not just nukes and proxy wars. We had the most wide spread prosperity in history, in large part due to the Cold War. That money train ended with the Cold War… we’ve all been thrown to the wolves now. I think you made a good point, I just was trying to show a bit more nuance to your historical analysis. :wink: