The Right Stuff,

While watching the Right Stuff last night one of the characters said something along the lines of; The Roman empire built roads, The British controlled the sea and America put the man on the moon. This lead me to think what will the next great empire super power's accomplishment will be? I think it will be the first country to develop a fossil fuel free economy. Sadly I don't think this will come from our country. We are too rich and lazy to have any sort of real foresight. The lack of new technology in my opinion is Bush's biggest folly. Of course there won't be a new technology when you not only cut funding to science, but argue against the long established basic facts of science.

Also in the Right Stuff, they had Lyndon Johnson playing the primary political person. They played him almost in a comical buffoon way. I felt they did it so over the top that it didn't fit into the story. Also Kennedy had an very minimal part in the movie, now how the fuck do you make a movie about going into space and not have JFK be the main politico?