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::I'm in agreement that the Soviets decided against it - they could have kept working at their heavy-lift capability until it was perfected, but as you said they decided at a certain point that there was no value in continuing down that path.  Frankly, putting a man on the moon just for the sake of doing so was never a justifiable mission, except that it's man's nature to always reach for greater goals.  I'm against the Constellation program approved by President Bush and Congress in 2005 for the same reason - there's no justification to spend vast sums on returning men to the moon when so much more can be learned for a fraction of the cost using unmanned/remote technology.  Since that was done by a Republican President with the support of a Republican Congress, such folly is not the sole province of liberals, I'm afraid.  --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 11:19, 3 December 2008 (EST)

::I'm in agreement that the Soviets decided against it - they could have kept working at their heavy-lift capability until it was perfected, but as you said they decided at a certain point that there was no value in continuing down that path.  Frankly, putting a man on the moon just for the sake of doing so was never a justifiable mission, except that it's man's nature to always reach for greater goals.  I'm against the Constellation program approved by President Bush and Congress in 2005 for the same reason - there's no justification to spend vast sums on returning men to the moon when so much more can be learned for a fraction of the cost using unmanned/remote technology.  Since that was done by a Republican President with the support of a Republican Congress, such folly is not the sole province of liberals, I'm afraid.  --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 11:19, 3 December 2008 (EST)

==ARPANET==

==ARPANET==

Cold War military thinking also gave us one of the greatest innovations from the 1960's.  The Defense Department created the concept of the ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) in the late 1960's as a way of enabling electronic communications even if parts of the national telecommunications network were disabled or destroyed.  The ARPAnet concepts were refined in the 1970's to create the framework of today's Internet. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 11:08, 3 December 2008 (EST)

Cold War military thinking also gave us one of the greatest innovations from the 1960's.  The Defense Department created the concept of the ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) in the late 1960's as a way of enabling electronic communications even if parts of the national telecommunications network were disabled or destroyed.  The ARPAnet concepts were refined in the 1970's to create the framework of today's Internet. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 11:08, 3 December 2008 (EST)