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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.space,net.columbia
Subject: Re: Scuttle the Space Program?
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 11:57:38 EST
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In article <877@masscomp.UUCP> ahv@masscomp.UUCP (Tony Verhulst) writes:
>
>Sure.  Just like the future Americans did when indigenous people were
>found on this continent.

	Ah, but why did this happen. I think it was a result of
resource competition between a growing, expanding culture that was
running out of room and another, less aggressive one. In space there
are tow things that will prevent this. Space is *enormous*, so it will
remaoin cheaper to simply go elsewhere than to fight for a very long
time. Second, aliens that like the environment on Pluto would not be
interested in any of the same resources we are, and we would have no
need for anything that they had, so what would there be to fight
about?
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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