Moon Shots Termed “Waste Of Money”
It was an “absolute waste of money” to have placed human beings on the moon, a British social anthropologist (Dr E. R. Leach) said in Christchurch last evening.
Dr Leach, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, is in New Zealand visiting universities at the invitation of the University Grants Committee.
The moon shots had merely been political stunts, be said, and the same information could have been achieved with sophisticated machines now readily available. “The actual pay-off in scientific data because men went to the moon is very small.”
The reason that so much money was being spent on pure science was that it was still orientated towards military matters. “This is a precise example of where rulers have been left behind by events.” It was “absolute nonsense” that governments still thought in terms of nineteenth century sovereignty. In '• a rational world, governments such as America and Russia should team up.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32386, 27 August 1970, Page 1
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