Unity+ Posted March 12, 2014 Posted March 12, 2014 The space collaboration between the two nations has survived other diplomatic kerfuffles -- most recently, the war in Syria and asylum for NSA leaker Edward Snowden -- and there's no need to worry, NASA says. "We do not expect the current Russia-Ukraine situation to have any impact on our civil space cooperation with Russia, including our partnership on the International Space Station program," said Allard Beutel, a NASA spokesman, pointing out that it's in both countries' best interests not to disrupt "operations that have maintained continuous human presence on orbit for over a decade." http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/11/tech/innovation/russia-us-space-program-ukraine/ I think this isn't just about the current issue. Over the decades, human conflict has gotten in the way of scientific progress so much that if humans had not gotten into such conflicts we may have achieved greater success and maybe we could have become more progressed than now. However, one could argue the difference between scientific and social progress.
CaptainPanic Posted March 12, 2014 Posted March 12, 2014 Well... conflict gets in the way of cooperation between nations, but it certainly does not get in the way of progress. In fact, the rockets used to get to space are invented in WWII by the Germans. Jet engines too.
swansont Posted March 12, 2014 Posted March 12, 2014 Well... conflict gets in the way of cooperation between nations, but it certainly does not get in the way of progress. In fact, the rockets used to get to space are invented in WWII by the Germans. Jet engines too. Yeah. The same things that inhibit international cooperation drive research in other ways.
StringJunky Posted March 12, 2014 Posted March 12, 2014 (edited) Well... conflict gets in the way of cooperation between nations, but it certainly does not get in the way of progress. In fact, the rockets used to get to space are invented in WWII by the Germans. Jet engines too. Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS,[1] Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) engineer air officer. He is credited with single handedly inventing the turbojet engine. Whittle's engines were developed some years earlier than those of Germany's Dr. Hans von Ohain who was the designer of the first operational jet engine.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Whittle Edited March 12, 2014 by StringJunky
Unity+ Posted March 12, 2014 Author Posted March 12, 2014 Well... conflict gets in the way of cooperation between nations, but it certainly does not get in the way of progress. In fact, the rockets used to get to space are invented in WWII by the Germans. Jet engines too. But then the question then becomes does conflict or cooperation increase the speed of progress.
CaptainPanic Posted March 13, 2014 Posted March 13, 2014 StringJunky, I stand corrected. Still, jet engines were first used in a practical way by the Germans.
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