Seriously, would we have expended even a tenth of as much energy into building the rocket technology to go to space, without the nationalistic prestige race in the 60s? Or the idea that we could use them to lob nuclear holocaust at each other if shit hit the fan?
I just wish we'd have dropped a US flag onto Pluto. Nothing like envy to make someone else achieve something great!
Kim doesn't have a long track record of leading to war and genocide. Nor do autotune and badass space exploration (yet).
that whole man on the moon business is really quite dumb (although impressive) compared to the robotic probes we use today, which are what the soviet union was pioneering at the time... all that dick waving stopped them from doing it sooner.