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From: gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith)
Newsgroups: net.space,net.columbia,net.followup
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Children's Fund
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 06:07:53 EST
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In article <469@ecn-pc.UUCP> wdm@ecn-pc.UUCP (Tex) writes:
>    Don't blame him, it is probably difficult to live in a country that 
>    sits on the sidelines and watches while we explore space.  After all,
>    they think it is pretty neat that they have a booster that can but
>    a satellite into orbit.


  Do I detect a hint of chauvinism here? Does anybody still remember
Sputnik? I think it is prtty neat that the Europeans havn't had any
fatalities in thier space program as yet.



ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
ucbvax!weyl!gsmith      "When Ubizmo talks, people listen."