Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!think!mit-eddie!cybvax0!frog!wjr From: wjr@frog.UUCP (STella Calvert) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: out-of-date(?!) (pre-BOOM) "I'll pay $x to joyride STS" arriving even now Message-ID: <649@frog.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 19:55:38 EST Article-I.D.: frog.649 Posted: Tue Feb 11 19:55:38 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Feb-86 06:34:19 EST References: <8602041137.AA13581@s1-b.arpa> Reply-To: wjr@x.UUCP (STella Calvert) Organization: The Church of the Holy Starship Lines: 36 Keywords: You betcha! Summary: still eager as ever! In article <8602041137.AA13581@s1-b.arpa> REM%IMSSS@SU-SCORE.ARPA writes: >D> Subject: Joy ride into space >D> I think your joy-ride threshold is too low. I would be willing to pay >I notice a lot of messages like this written *before* Challenger blew >up, which are now making their way into the digest. I wonder how man >of these message-authors still feel the same now? Well, I don't know whether my first message got out, any more than I'm sure this one's getting out (send mail if you get it) but I'm still interested in a ride, because it's _not_ a joyride. The graduation from the cradle of earth to the playpen of the inner solar system is sufficiently important that I'm still willing to pay a goodly clump of money for the chance to participate. I'd even be willing to pay a few bucks (~$10-100) for a lottery ticket that gave me a small chance of being able to participate personally (even by getting turned into crispies) and a certainty of contributing to the future of humanity in space. And BTW, to all of you who think my "organization" is a joke -- WRONG! I'm seriously (religiously) devoted to the essential task of this generation, and as willing to get martyred for that cause as any first-century piece of lionchow. I'd rather live to join the One-hundred-mile-high Club, 8-), but opening the door to the stars is much more important than the continued existence of one person (or seven, for that matter). STella Calvert Every man and every woman is a star. Guest on: ...!decvax!frog!wjr Life: Baltimore!AnnArbor!Smyrna! !SantaCruz!Berkeley!AnnArbor!Taxachusetts Future: ... (!L5!TheBelt!InterstellarSpace)