crad@polari.UUCP (Charles Radley) (11/12/90)
Summary: Expires: References: <9010282110.AA00719@iti.org> <6883@hub.ucsb.edu> <8619@fmeed1.UUCP> Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Seattle Online Public Unix (206) 328-4944 Keywords: +In other words, if LLNL saves the taxpayers some money, CFR is +out of a job. Radley's interests lie in making certain that +the LLNL concept is dismissed before being investigated, so +that it does not replace the SS. Fred project. - It is regrettable that you attribute these motives to me. If Fred is canceled it will of course cause me severe personal hardship. But I may get involved in LLNL myself, who knows. I have sufficient confidence in my ability that I will get hired somewhere by somebody. My problems with the LLNL concept are genuine. I do not doubt that something like it can be made to work, but I question the cost, and the usefulness of the proposal. It is not a microgravity/life sciences research facility. It is part of a "plant a flag on Mars" plan, which I oppose. +As a taxpayer, my interests are different. My interests are: +1.) Determine if the LLNL concept will work, and if so, +2.) Put Charles Frank Radley and all the other contractors + working on Fred out on the street post haste. - The "peace dividend" means that large numbers of highly skilled engineers are being laid off in unprecedented numbers. They will be a drain on the economy if they cannot be usefully employed. You should be looking for ways to reduce hi-tech unemployment, not to create it. That does NOT mean Freedom or any other program should be overmanned just to create work, they tried that in the Soviet Union with tragic results. In part, Freedom has an invaluable role as a Roosevelt style hi-tech public works program, creating infrastructure, and preserving the resource of hi-tech expertise. The simplest way to save tax money is to cancel the entire space program, and what do we need science for anyway..... |-)