Edgar Garcia
>At what altitude did the liberty of space begin?
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Edgar Garcia explores just where outer space begins @ The Hydra.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The ‘conquest of space’ was the benign concept by which the United States finally came to terms with itself as empire, with a fully operational imperium in imperio to boot. During the Cold War, Arthur C. Clark writes: “Interplanetary travel is now the only form of ‘conquest and empire’ compatible with civilization” (“Space Flight and the Spirit of Man,” 1965). Project Paperclip brought Nazi rocket scientists to the deserts of the southwest. Working within with the OSS (the then CIA), ex-Nazi Werner von Brauen spearheads a multi-platform popularization of the idea of space exploration. And Walt Disney is there to help.
Prez Ike uttered the phrase ‘Military-Industrial Complex,’ to warn against the increasingly intertwined policy relationships between the industrial sector and the national armed forces. While Americans were urged to defend liberty in the face of a global red scare, the same urge was depicted as the force of circumstance by which the massive centralization of resources that only big government could organize became total necessity. NASA and the CIA came from this single gargantuan womb. And we began to send people into outer space.
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