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From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: L-5 Society
Message-ID: <1326@ames.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 21:05:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 21:05:49 1986
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> 
> > ...It almost seems that to them [L5ers],
> > ANY space project is automatically a GOOD space project.
> > 
> > Seems to me that Werner von Braun once had a problem like that.
> 
> And he did us all a favor, too.  Bainbridge's "The Spaceflight Revolution"
> makes a convincing case for the effort Nazi Germany spent on the V-2 being
> a near-total waste.

V2's did, however, kill a lot of people.  As Tom Lehrer put it:

    Think of all the widows and cripples in old London town,
    Who owe their large pensions to Werner von Braun