They killed commercial supersonic flights.

They killed space exploration - shuttles grounded, Moon missions abandoned.

They’re working to kill nuclear power too.

The most transformative technologies humanity has ever built have been shelved or banned over the past 50 years. Excuses are always the same: “too risky,” “too expensive.” I don’t buy it.

Concorde flew profitably for British Airways, with only one fatal accident in 30 years.

Gemini and Apollo had one fatal accident in 11 years. The space race was costly, yes, but the US spends three times that every year on military budgets and debt servicing alone. Meanwhile, Apollo pushed computing, aerospace materials, and telecom forward by decades… and Helium‑3 mining could still be the next frontier.

The Space Shuttle: 2 fatal accidents in 135 flights. Development cost $200B. Delivered the ISS, Hubble, robotic space construction. The US spends four times that on Medicare every year.

Nuclear power: 440 reactors worldwide, deadly accidents limited to Chernobyl, SL‑1, Tokaimura. That’s three fatal accidents across hundreds of plants over decades. Every other incident - Three Mile Island, Fukushima - caused no immediate deaths. Nuclear delivers reliable electricity, naval propulsion, medical isotopes, advanced materials. Yet political fear, regulation, and cost have kept it constrained.

The real hypocrisy? Deaths from these technologies are tiny compared to Gaza in the last two years, yet Western governments, especially the US, act as if nothing matters.

We’re regressing technologically and socially. Is this what Asimov called the inevitable Dark Ages in Foundation? It sure looks like it.