henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (10/20/86)
> ...there is currently only one space activist group that is worth > supporting and being a member of and this is the British Interplanetary > Society. They are without question the best of the various space > activist groups... While I am a BIS member, and would abandon several other space groups before giving up the BIS, I would point out that characterizing the BIS as a "space activist group" is stretching it a bit. The BIS's focus is technical and educational, not "activist". It looks farther into the future than any of the other groups, even the professional-aerospace ones, and that alone makes membership worthwhile. But apart from occasional low-key efforts in Britain, the BIS is in the business of talking about space rather than making it happen. The BIS publications make fascinating reading, but that's almost all there is to the BIS. My life membership in L5 isn't because I liked its publications. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry