I understand what your trying to say, I just don’t think it’s true. The capitalist class came up with the intermediate steps, for profit, during the industrial revolution.

The Egyptians? What of them?

Yes, I am. Although the concept of a jet engine was known about for a long time it was only prototyped and finalized for the war effort. Since the Germans knew they were going to war first, they had a head start and finished first.

Everyone else launched reactionary programs. The goal of America’s program was to kill fascists, but they didn’t finish before the war’s end. Afterwards they pivoted to communists.

Everyone was developing them, more or less. The thing is, the enemy doesn’t usually share their tech with you so you’ve got to develop programs independently.

In the west, jet engines were developed to kill fascists and communists. The ROI was good.

I don’t see the parallel

Back to work peasant!

And take a look around. Maybe they shouldn’t have the reigns.

Sold at a loss?

Nah, there must be a reason to fund research. Then, publicly funded research must align with the public’s good.

Whose going to be able to afford this? Air fare is already expensive.

Also, why is NASA doing this with tax dollars?

Is this stupid or am I stupid and missing something obvious?