Americans tend to rally whenever there is a difficult technical challenge and national pride are involved.

Perfectly good examples are precisely the Manhattan project, putting a man on the moon, and even building the world's tallest skyscraper during the recession.
what should this generation's big national technical project be?

1) Independence from foreign oil

2) Going back to the moon

3) Other

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Sending a man to Mars would definitely trump synfuels, but on the other hand, unless Mars has fast oil reserves that we can build a pipeline back to the US for, it still doesn't do us much good. I'm very excited about recent news stories such as the 19 requests that were just filed by a variety of companies to use federal lands for shale oil production, or Montana's huge push for synthetic fuel from coal. It's estimated that Montana alone has enough coal that can be converted to oil to rival Saudi Arabia! We've reached a pricepoint where it should easily be more economical to produce synthetic oil from both coal and shale rather than importing oil from elsewhere. Synfuels could actually return us to being able to export oil to the rest of the world, in fact.

It will be other. Its never whats infront of the nation thats done ,,, oe done in the open. The bomb was private. The moon was to win a war. The twin towers slaped alot of folks in the face as they lost there jobs.

I think it will be in medical research. Most people in the world wont beable to afford the cures that are coming. But they will be there.

perhaps there was another "manhattan project", and correct me if i am wrong, but i thought it was the developing of the first atomic bomb?

http://www.atomicmuseum.com/tour/manhattanproject.cfm

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The project code named "Manhattan" started after Albert Einstein wrote a letter to FDR in 1939 urging America to develop the atomic bomb before Hitler did. It was so secret that when then Sen. Harry Truman was investigating government waste, he was never told the nature of this project - until he succeeded FDR as President.

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NASA's Plan to Return to the Moon

I'm concerned that returning to the moon may be little more than a redo of Project Apollo. The return needs to be with the intent of establishing a moon base. Why would we commit to a lunar outpost when we are lukwarm to the International Space Station just 250 miles above Earth?

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If commericial fusion power was developed, that would indeed be a momential achievement. It would be the end of fossil fuel and OPEC. It would transform geopolitics.

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oops, my bad. in my addled, not sufficiently caffeined mind this morning, i read the first post as the manhattan project being putting the man on the moon.......so my post above can be totally ignored as the babbling of someone who needs another cup of coffee..........

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