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kpete

(71,997 posts) Wed Jan 13, 2016, 11:39 AM Jan 2016

Sixty years ago, when the Russians beat us into space, we didn’t deny Sputnik was up there. We didn’t argue about the science, or shrink our research and development budget. We built a space program almost overnight, and twelve years later, we were walking on the moon.
https://medium.com/@WhiteHouse/president-obama-s-2016-state-of-the-union-address-7c06300f9726#.v2c6hqr64

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"Sixty years ago, when the Russians beat us into space, we didn’t deny Sputnik was up there." (Original Post) kpete Jan 2016 OP

Times change... Octafish Jan 2016 #1

(55,745 posts)

1. Times change...

Wed Jan 13, 2016, 12:45 PM

Jan 2016

...now it pays to be ignorant.

Of course, there also's no money in telling the truth: ask a teacher or a journalist.