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Re: How did they ban it?
Posted by Reality (more from Reality) on Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:12:44
In Reply to: Re: How did they ban it?, John G, Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:36:49
Foreign scientists and engineers came to work in the US because the US paid more . . . just like Silicon Valley attracted many foreign-born engineers in the boom years in the 1990's. In the case of the Sillicon Vally, they were actually put to use developing products useful for consumers. In the case of NASA, it was much less so; more like put to use building monuments for the glorification of the state, and looping the gullibles.

Private launch companies in the late 40's and early 1950's had to re-invent the wheel first catching up on what Werner von Braun already did for a decade in Naz* Germany. The government refused to share what it captured from the Germans. Furthermore, starting in 1950, the US Army itself started building rockets for space launch using von Braun's team, essentially a predecessor to NASA. With government competition in the game with potentially unlimited funds bidding away engineers and material, and with a big head-start due to the war-time capture, it's only natural that companies like Hughes switched focus to electronics on the satellite instead of the launch.

Private companies being beneficiary of government largess in subsequent years may well come at the expense of consumers. It's just like the regulated utility companies and megabanks. There used to be competitive utility companies more than a century ago. Government regulatory monopolies indeed benefit the incumbents, but the consumers get less service.



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