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Subject: RE: Space Station Alert  -- Death of the Species
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Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 12:19:26 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 13 12:19:26 1984
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>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.
-- 
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