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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP
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Subject: Re:optimism
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 17:02:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 17:02:57 1986
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> 	Third, does anyone else blame Proxmire for this?  
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> (ihnp4;allegra;research)!alice!jj

Why do people want to lay the blame for things out of anyone's control
on someone? The shuttle program is very well funded, and very impressively
run. Things that people build tend to blow up occasionally. Humans
are not perfect. Please do not compound this tragedy by trying to find
a scapegoat.

Also: a word of optimism amongst the pessimism ---
   I normally consider myself "overly critical," especially when
it comes to the general public of the US. (Can you blame me when
the same farmers who voted Reagan in for a second term are now
getting screwed by the same administration?) However, the response
to this disaster has been very uplifting...
   I look around and I see mostly optimistic people who have come
to realize that the Challenger 7, and everyone that is connected
with the space program, is out to do something special. If anything,
I am convinced that we will see an increase in the activity of the
space program, not just in the shuttle program, but in all areas.
There will be a lull of perhaps a half year, but then increased
enthusiasm.

   The space program will continue because humanity must
continue: the destiny of both have been inseperably linked
for centuries. I beleive that now more than ever.



-- 
                           --- Rob DeMillo 
                               Madison Academic Computer Center
                               ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo


     "...I suppose you find the concept of a 
         robot with an artificial leg amusing?"

                    -- Marvin, the Paranoid Android