[Grishnakh]

You have to remember, you're in America (I'm assuming, since this story is about something in America). This isn't the country you might think it is.

You might be thinking this is the country that put men on the Moon. That's incorrect. That country is in the past, and no longer exists; most of the people involved in that are dead.

This country couldn't put men on the Moon right now, with far better technology than existed back then, if its survival depended on it. This is a country that doesn't do anything big any more, it just sits back and says "that can't be done", and "that'll never work". This country says these things even while other countries like China actually go out and do them.

These people are probably right: this fancy new ideas never will work, here. Instead, they'll be taken overseas somewhere where people there will make them work. And we'll continue to sit around here, telling ourselves "no way, that'll never work, it's not feasible, etc." while our economy stagnates more and more.

[MaysonL]

Note that it took eight years to put the first men on the moon for a short stay. It's quite likely that within the next eight years there will be men on the moon, maybe even to establish a base.

[Grishnakh]

Where did you get that crazy idea? There's no action at all in the US government and NASA to pursue such a plan, and they'd need to be starting this far ahead to actually do that. If you're talking about China, that's a possibility, but we're not China, I'm talking about the US here and how it's unable to accomplish such projects any more.

[MaysonL]

Who said US government or NASA was going to be involved?

[blackflame7000]

His whole comment is about the American spirit. Get with it Mayson

[knieveltech]

To clarify you claim our economy is stagnating predominantly due to a lack of innovation?

[Grishnakh]

No, it's stagnating because of a growing income inequality and a hollowing-out of the middle class. Innovation isn't enough to fix this, and eventually it's going to bite us in the ass. But infrastructure is also important for the economy, and US infrastructure is in a shambles and getting worse. Big infrastructure projects (which actually work) are desperately needed, especially ones which make transport more efficient and less polluting. I'm not entirely sold Hyperloop is really the answer BTW, I think SkyTran would be a lot more useful overall and a lot more technically feasible not to mention cheap to build, but I see the same naysaying for any new transportation technology that comes along.