Chuck Yeager is still alive? Really?- XMASTIME
93 and still
(kind of) kicking:
It is not surprising that Yeager, a 93-year-old
white male veteran, might be politically conservative. Demographics is,
after all, destiny. But he is a conservative whose life’s work depended
on the U.S. government’s commitment to technological innovation and
scientific exploration. The lure then was military primacy, safety, and
security; but innovation is just a new word for evolution. Survival,
then and now, is the aim of science.
How
does Yeager feel, then, about a president who is avowedly anti-science?
As someone involved in the pursuit of knowledge, is he optimistic about
the state of science and how it is valued today? I tried to pose these
questions to the general via email. “Read Yeager,” was the response.
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