The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.

The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic.

As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.

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