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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
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Subject: Re: Why Leave Home At All?
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 13:45:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 13:45:55 1985
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Summary: Why not leave?


<Both quoted articles cut severely>

Jon Pugh:
>> So we must look ahead, beyond our petty little ball of dirt.  If
>> Mankind is to survive, we must take to the stars.

Ron Cain:
>	When we can harness energy sufficiently well to accomodate all the
>people we already have and can establish a homeostasis on
>this ball of dirt so that it is a stable place -- then, and only then would
>I say we had earned the right to leave.

I find both these attitudes equally annoying.  Of course we can survive
here.  And of course we can go to the stars.  And we should do both.  By
whose standards do we have to "earn" a right to leave?  Our own behavior
and ideals are the only standards we have.  If we run into someone out there
with other standards, then we can talk about how much right we have to leave.
If we wait for utopia first, we will wait forever.