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From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Spencer's signature
Summary: it's results that count, not intentions... so whither the dream?
Message-ID: <7365@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 88 06:08:54 GMT
References: <1988Oct28.180827.25578@utzoo.uucp> <2074@kalliope.rice.edu>
Reply-To: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Organization: Independent Users Guild
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In article <2074@kalliope.rice.edu> phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
>In article <1988Oct28.180827.25578@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>The dream *IS* alive...    |    Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
>>but not at NASA.           |uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
>
>I know this group has been through this before.......but I just wanted to
>say, for the record, that I still take offense at Henry's signature.
>Perhaps he thinks it's funny or perhaps he thinks it's true.  To me it is
>neither.

Thanks for sharing that with us.  It doesn't mean Henry's wrong, or
that voicing his opinion is inappropriate.

There are two ways you can interpret his statement.  One is that NASA
employees don't care about the future of space exploration.  If you
really think that's what Henry means, I have some Florida swamp land
you might care to look over. :-)  The other interpretation is that the
*effective advancement* of the dream does not inhere in what NASA is
doing, regardless of the personal beliefs of the folks who fill out the
time cards there.  I will bet you anything that's the interpretation
Henry had in mind, and if I am right he may very well have a point.
Perhaps he could have couched the point in more innocuous easy-to-chew
language, but that's a point of personal style.  For all our
disagreements, I wouldn't have him any other way.  :-)

>Not wanting to start an argument.....just had to get it off my chest.

Famous Last Words!