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The shadow Of Apollo

机译:阿波罗的阴影

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Fifty years after Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, it's hard not to conclude that he got things backwards. The moon landing was a giant leap for a man-Armstrong's life was forever changed-but, in hindsight, only a small step for mankind.It's not that putting people on the moon wasn't a difficult collective achievement-it was. But getting to the moon has done little in the long run to change human society.As Roger Launius, an eminent space historian, writes in his new book Apollo's Legacy, "At a basic level, the president's Apollo decision was to the United States what the pharaohs' determination to build the pyramids was to Egypt." Its most resonant impact is not a particular technology, but simply the metaphor: If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we do A?The "X's" that usually come up in these discussions, such as figuring out how to solve climate change or poverty, "all have some potential for the application of technical solutions," Launius notes. "But they are largely political and social problems." And Apollo did not solve any political or social problems. Other "X's"-say, curing cancer-depend on developing whole new forms of scientific knowledge.
机译:Neil Armstrong走到月球上五十年后,很难得出结论,他倒退了。月亮着陆是一个巨大的飞跃,为一个人的armstrong的生命是永远改变的 - 但在后代,只有人类的一小步。这并不是把人们放在月球上不是一个艰难的集体成就 - 它是。但是,从长远来看,到月球几乎没有改变人类社会。作为Roger Launius,一个知名空间历史学家,在他的新书阿波罗的遗产中写道,“在基本的水平,总统的阿波罗决定是美国法老的决心建立金字塔的决定是埃及的。”其最谐振的影响不是特定的技术,而是简单的隐喻:如果我们可以把一个男人放在月球上,为什么我们不能做一个?通常在这些讨论中出现的“X的”,例如如何解决如何解决气候变化或贫困,“所有这些解决方案都有一些潜力,”Launius笔记“。 “但他们在很大程度上是政治和社会问题。”和阿波罗没有解决任何政治或社会问题。其他“X的” - 染色,治愈癌症 - 依靠发展全新的科学知识形式。

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