/sci/ - Science & Math

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>>11686225
Harder how?
The soviets already lead the way to humans existing in space, humans returning from space, things orbiting bodies, and things going to the moon. The US just hyper-specialized on taking those elements and combining them.
Was it hard? What is hard? It was certainly dangerous and there was less room for fuckups. It was also not something the soviets even had a mind to do untill the US arbitrarily set it as a goal, and then the soviets decided they may as well try to.
All the while however the soviets were actually doing useful things. There are no men on the moon today, there are satalites everywhere, there are robots landing on mars, on asteroids, even returning with samples, all things the soviets did.

And so what we take from this is that the soviets were correctly pursuing useful scientific things and the US went all in on something fairly useless, probably calculated because they knew the soviets had no interest in it and so it was the only place they could compete.

the government can do nothing but advance the cause of capital so long as it is controlled by capitalists
it is up to the people to advance science