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Subject: Re: Access to Space
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Date: 18 Jun 91 21:55:11 GMT
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In article <31548@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca) writes:

>Communications satellites are a service.  The service sector of the 
>economy does not create signifigant real wealth, 

If the ability to communicate instantly across the planet does not
constitute "wealth", what does?   My particular business, Sequent,
would lose over half of its revenues if we couldn't talk and send
faxes to our European offices via satellite.

Perhaps we could also say that steel mills and airplanes don't 
create real wealth, because that's merely manufacturing and 
transportation.  Only farms that make food are real wealth. 
Ad absurdum.

I find your arguments quite astounding.  Perhaps what you are really
trying to say is that, because the industry does not employ astronauts,
you don't care about it?



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Nick Szabo			szabo@sequent.com
Embrace Change...  Keep the Values...  Hold Dear the Laughter...
These views are my own, and do not represent any organization.