It wasn't just Nixon. Every time the Presidency switched parties, the new administration would cancel a slew of space projects the old administration was working on partly as a way to slash budgets and partly out of pure spite. Thing is, with limited funding, manned space projects can take many years to properly develop and test, so we lost a lot--A LOT--of promising developments in partisan tit for tat through the decades. Manned asteroid missions, aerospike engines, shuttle replacements, single stage to orbit vehicles, and others. Unmanned probes got the love because they were mostly cheaper to develop, less flashy, and didn't draw the attention of vindictive partisan budget hawks
I would argue that austerity politics and the lack of a need for more powerful weapons were also major factors. Once we had nuclear ICBMs and transitioned to cold wars with the most powerful Nations on Earth, a lot of that military funding was repurposed. The fading public interest in manned space flight would have been harder to combat at the time, but would probably be a much easier sell if the domestic economic impact of the space race had been more heavily marketed to the general public. Unfortunately, once Reagan got in office with his austerity politics rhetoric, the stage was pretty much set for that to be the overarching philosophy that would guide the next 40+ years of economic policy in the US, so you would need to find a way of overcoming that entire framework (which were still struggling to do at present).
@@misterbubbles6389 Which I still think is implausible. Not the part about terraforming, the part about still going for wild caught. I think a future where mariculture is focused more on floating seaweed/algae and crustacean/fish farms is much more likely.
It wasn't just Nixon. Every time the Presidency switched parties, the new administration would cancel a slew of space projects the old administration was working on partly as a way to slash budgets and partly out of pure spite. Thing is, with limited funding, manned space projects can take many years to properly develop and test, so we lost a lot--A LOT--of promising developments in partisan tit for tat through the decades. Manned asteroid missions, aerospike engines, shuttle replacements, single stage to orbit vehicles, and others. Unmanned probes got the love because they were mostly cheaper to develop, less flashy, and didn't draw the attention of vindictive partisan budget hawks
Oh shit
I remember watching this and getting rather comfortably numb on numerous weekend evenings.
What a polite way to put that.
President Carl Sagan!
I didn't knew anything about Cowboy Bebop, but now I just want to discover the serie and it's universe.
Oh he's alive!
Having a family and a full time job means I usually can only get out one video a month.
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It's no biggie, I will watch your videos when ever u upload
great video i am glad this channel lives
What a great show. Always gives me good nostalgia now
The cowboy bebop future that shouldn’t happen is a money grabbing live action
Did you check it out.
Excellent video!
Glad you liked it!
I love your videos but I really wish the volume was a bit louder.
Sorry about that. I'm using a new mic on my next video so hopefully that will improve things.
can someone say me how we can make alternative history map? I mean do we have any app and software for this?
I would argue that austerity politics and the lack of a need for more powerful weapons were also major factors.
Once we had nuclear ICBMs and transitioned to cold wars with the most powerful Nations on Earth, a lot of that military funding was repurposed.
The fading public interest in manned space flight would have been harder to combat at the time, but would probably be a much easier sell if the domestic economic impact of the space race had been more heavily marketed to the general public.
Unfortunately, once Reagan got in office with his austerity politics rhetoric, the stage was pretty much set for that to be the overarching philosophy that would guide the next 40+ years of economic policy in the US, so you would need to find a way of overcoming that entire framework (which were still struggling to do at present).
yo
Space fishing? How does that work?
The moons of Jupiter have been terraformed into oceans, so ships like the Bebop can just trawlers on them
@@misterbubbles6389 Which I still think is implausible. Not the part about terraforming, the part about still going for wild caught. I think a future where mariculture is focused more on floating seaweed/algae and crustacean/fish farms is much more likely.
Jesus Christ get a new microphone it's absolutely terrible