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From: phillips@cisden.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Why does everyone want to leave this planet?
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Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 11:01:37 EST
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Summary: disbelief

In article <2960@ut-ngp.UUCP> cgeiger@ut-ngp.UUCP (Charles S. Geiger, Esq.) writes:
>Well, why?  While I am very interested in astronomy and all that
>sort of thing, I don't understand why anyone would want to
>permanently migrate to another planet.  There's just so much *here*
>to see and learn, certainly enough to last a lifetime!  Most
>importantly, this is our home.
>Frankly, I hope all of you gung-ho types will get the opportunity
>to leave and will take advantage of it.  That way all the
>exploiters, conquerors, or, to be charitable, "adventurous" types
>(what's so unadventurous about staying here and learning about your
>own planet?) will leave, and I can be at peace here.
>charles s. geiger
>just a wage slave

In reading Gordon Dickson's Childe Cycle novels I always thought his thesis
about people not leaving Earth for this kind of reason was stretched and
unrealistic.  Here's one wage slave that showed me that Dickson was right.
Unbelievable.
-- 
						Tommy Phillips
From the banks of the great grey-green greasy Limpopo River,
all set about with fever-trees.

				cisden!phillips