gtww2z9z%gables.span@umigw.miami.edu (Jason Gross) (11/30/88)
All this stuff about whether or not Canadians should be making comments about a system they don't pay for is totally pointless. If you need justification for Canadians to comment on *our* space program, them let me remind you that we use a particularly long part of hardware from Canada in the shuttle: The CanadaArm. Besides, to exclude comments from other just becuase they dont "pay" for the right to do so is limiting and prevents us from hearing potentially useful information. In other words, if you want to say something and you just happen to be from Mozambique, say it! I'll be a listenin'! -- Jason Gross Comp Sci Ugrad University of Miami Class of '91 (?) =========================================================================== "Women. You can't live | Mail your invigorating replies to: | For with them, and you can't | GTWW2Z9Z%Gables.Span@Umigw.Miami.Edu | Sale: shoot them, either." | (What a lovely address, isn't it now?) | $.05 ======================================================== IBM Sucks Silicon!
greg@bilbo (Greg Wageman) (12/02/88)
In article <gables.275@umigw.miami.edu> gtww2z9z%gables.span@umigw.miami.edu (Jason Gross) writes: >All this stuff about whether or not Canadians should be making comments >about a system they don't pay for is totally pointless. If you need >justification for Canadians to comment on *our* space program, them let me >remind you that we use a particularly long part of hardware from Canada in >the shuttle: The CanadaArm. > >Besides, to exclude comments from other just becuase they dont "pay" for >the right to do so is limiting and prevents us from hearing potentially >useful information. The reason some people got upset is that with all the recent press coverage of some Canadians shouting vehemently about not wanting to be annexed by or dependent on the United States, it seems rancorous to have another Canadian making strong statements about what the United States ought to be doing in space. The gut reaction is, "If they don't want us to mind their business, they oughtn't to mind ours." We tend to oversimplify and view all citizens of a country other than our own as being all of the same mind, when we know from our own country that this is never the case. The results of the recent election in Canada indicate that the isolationists were not in the majority. Personally I find Mr. Spencer's comments to be generally constructive; however it would be politic for him to moderate his tone at times when a great deal of anti-U.S. invective is being hurled from north of the border. It would behoove American readers to bear in mind that one man's opinions do not echo those of all of his countrymen. Greg Wageman ARPA: greg%sentry@spar.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: ...!decwrl!spar!sentry!greg ------------------ Opinions expressed herein are solely the responsibility of the author.