Building Our Space Infrastructure

Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:19 PM EDT

By Brokinarrow (Clipped by Mitchell-512733)

Building Our Space Infrastructure A Project to Change the World The construction of the Interstate Highway System, spanning from 1956 to 1974 and costing $114 billion dollars (1) (or $522 billion in 2011 dollars) was initially hatched as a national defense project. T …

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space, budget, tech, nasa, science

Should we continue with nuclear power?

Mon Apr 4, 2011 8:57 PM EDT

Last week, a friend of mine Michael (Astronomy.FM) asked people to convince him that we should abandon nuclear power in the wake of the Japan crisis in the discussion of this opinion article:

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technology, nuclear, power

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