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From: kendalla@orca.UUCP (Kendall Auel)
Newsgroups: net.space,net.columbia
Subject: Re: Scuttle the Space Program?
Message-ID: <1993@orca.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 19:58:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 19:58:27 1986
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In article <932@nmtvax.UUCP> fine@nmtvax.UUCP (Andrew J Fine) writes:
>Let's ask ourselves a few questions:
>
>.....(lot's of questions).....
>
>If humanity can simply change from mere descendants of carnivorous apes to
>something totally gentle, altrustic, and noble, then Earth will be enough.
>We only try to escape the Earth because we try to escape our own natures.

Earth is enough for the gentle, altruistic, and noble. The image of the
Adventurer is not one of gentility or nobility. What kind of person
would want to scratch a meager existence out of the frozen dust of
Mars? Scrounging another kilowatt hour from a set of balky solar cells?
Hoping the hydroponics produce enough food to last until the next Earth
shipment arrives? And, studying and learning more about the alien landscape
than anyone had previously known.

The meek will inherit the Earth. The rest of us will go to the stars!

Kendall Auel