Comment by jmward01
3 hours ago
I strongly beg to differ. Building is the easy part. It is the political will that isn't. Try to build a train in California and it takes decades and you have a hundred different entities sabotaging you. Put five more lanes on a freeway and no drama, it just happens. We got to the moon when the political will was there but the engineering was still basically science fiction but once the political will dried up, even though the engineering was solved and 'easy', we couldn't get back. History is full of these examples.
I think you're actually agreeing with ctoth i.e. people think the engineering is difficult and politics is easy, BUT that's backwards if you look at history (which you then do). Political will IS the difficult part, and at least the three of us agree on that.
I guess my internal LLM hallucinated what I was expecting to read!