User blog comment:Iwaschris/Future Past, Future Today, Future Tomorrow/@comment-1630894-20120331030549/@comment-4882197-20120517210202

I disagree that this is ASB tech and that it couldn't have happened. For the following reasons

1 It violate no laws of physics

2 the technology builds off of systerms that did exist :ie saturn v become saturn v d and onward

3 the TL keeps canceled [mailto:R@d R@d] alive and further develops it :ie NERVA and other nuke tech

4 NASA is well funded while the DOD loses funding

5 the motivation is fear of the Soviets : the USA and USSR spend how many trillions on defence during the cold war?

6 the timeline doesn't rush technological development : projects take years even decades to complete, all well funded

ASB suggest the impossible my timeline is possible all it needed was a different Nixon!

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