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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/39171/
- Published: 2016-02-03T06:04:14.000Z
- Updated: 2016-02-03T06:04:14.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![Kauffman](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Kauffman-300x209.jpg)

The social critic Lewis Mumford found the space program “anti-human.” Space travel, he argued, requires “the total mobilization of the megamachine, commanding to the point of exhaustion all the resources of the state: it is both a symbol of total control and a means of popularizing it and extending it as an ineffable symbol of progress.” Mumford urged the NASA-bedazzled to look homeward: “No comatose space travel, no millennial hibernation, however interminable, promise even a scintilla of what earthbound man has already accomplished.”

I'm reminded of a stop my family made in Huntsville, Alabama to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. They had a big exhibit that featured all the improvements the space program has brought to America. Every single item was an incidental discovery. I wanted to ask, "Can you show me a single benefit from, you know, actually putting a man on the moon?"

I have little doubt, on the other hand, that satellites have improved things for mankind. I see benefits all the time in my office: new satellite survey techniques have revealed that old surveys are inaccurate, resulting in property line disputes, which result in more legal fees. So that's cool (wry smile).