McCain Turns Against Technosocialism?

McCain Turns Against Technosocialism?

"Some potentially very big news breaking from Phoenix:

Sen. McCain offers $300 million prize for new auto battery
...
â??In the quest for alternatives to oil, our government has thrown
around enough money subsidizing special interests and excusing failure,â??
said excerpts from McCainâ??s prepared text. â??From now on, we will
encourage heroic efforts in engineering, and we will reward the greatest
success.â??

The first attempt to legislate an idea for an orbital prize (rumored to
have come up within the 1981 meeting of Niven/Pournelleâ??s â??Citizenâ??s
Advisory Councilâ??) was made by some libertarian-leaning guys who were
former members of the Tucson L5 Society. The idea was basically to have
the government replace its launch vehicle development and operations
programs with a simple incentive: US companies get a few hundred dollars
from the US government for every pound of mass they place in Low Earth
Orbit. The Tuscon guys had some significant interaction with McCainâ??s
office on drafting the legislation. That effort was a failure but it was
the start toward my involvement with the Launch Services Purchase Act of
1990, which was signed into law, and the 1992 draft of legislation for
prizes of $100M each for several fusion energy milestonesâ??both of which
were precursors to Peter Diamandis (then of the International Space
University) forming his X-Prize Foundation.

If McCain actually makes this a central part of his campaign, he is
pulling off something of a coup. Trailing by 15 points and basically
abandoning US territory, in the continuation of that long national
nightmareâ??the great land-grab of the USâ??s territory called JFKâ??s
â??New Frontierâ??â??he may have no choice but to turn against
technosocialism. It is surprising that his brain would be working even
_this_ well.

I smell a â??libertarianâ?? Jew from the Tucson L5 daysâ??turned
neoconâ?¦

UPDATE: Obama reacts by calling for yet another â??Apollo-styleâ?? program
to solve the energy problem. Oh wellâ?¦ Another 50 years down the
tubes."<<

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