Bacon believed that the scientific method proved things to be right or wrong. He set up an approach in believing everything to be false until you prove it to be true which was called inductive reasoning.
What were rationing programs implemented to do? What types of things were rationed?
It was ARPANET. Google was still about 3 decades away.
Although there were great physical and financial risks associated with colonization, the rewards in terms o resources and land power were immense, so most nations were willing to try.