jj@rabbit.UUCP (03/13/84)
>From alice!allegra!ulysses!burl!clyde!floyd!vax135!ukc!qtlon!dave Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 > >Suggested alternatives to wasting money on a space station: > >1) feed a few of the starving people in the world > >2) Give all politicians a lobotomy (semi :-)) > >3) Build a mock up space station (did you see the movie Capricorn One?) > since no-one will be able to tell the difference. > >But seriously, folks, there ARE a lot more useful ways of spending >that much money. >Earth has enough problems: why not solve them before making new ones in space? > > Yours sadly, > Dave Lukes (<U.K.>!ukc!qtlon!dave) OK. Let's answer these. 1) Let's not do any research on how to grow more food, or how to get more energy into a useful form (say from SPS). Let's not look at the earth through all sorts of space surveying equipment so that we can find water/arable land/ etc to grow more food. Let's let the weather wreck everything we grow. Let's close our eyes and commit suicide. All are equivelent statements, as is Dave's #1. 2) :-) indeed. Might be worth it, but it wouldn't cost enough to take a layer of paint off of the Space Station Loo. 3) Fine, let's consume more resources in an attempt to waste as much as possible. I guess this one is :-), also. "there are a lot more useful ways ..." It's clear that some people don't understand that the fallout from the US space program was in excess of 10-20 times it's cost, and that the continued fallout is what is responsible for almost all of today's chip development, miniturization, etc. I've said enough, I can't even be polite about this ostrich behavoir any more. Up the conservatives, there is indeed NO place like Hume. -- TEDDY BEARS ARE NICER THAN PEOPLE-- HUG YOUR OWN TODAY ! (allegra,harpo,ulysses)!rabbit!jj
fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) (03/16/84)
I was preparing a blast for Mr. Lukes, but I see that rabbit!jj beat me
to it. I agree substiantially with what jj said... (Hello David. Moved
from Root Computers, I see.)
Erik E. Fair
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