Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!spl1!ddsw1!corpane!sparks
From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: NSS and space settlement
Summary: Going into space beats sittin on yer A** here on earth
Message-ID: <258@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 20:39:58 GMT
References: <3225@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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In article <3225@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>, keithl@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Keith Lofstrom) writes:
> I need to spend some time hanging around visionary
> dreamers, practical or not;  it helps me survive the shrivel-souled
> bean counters and smothering totalitarian fools I see every day.
> 
> Anyone want to start the L4 Society?  Membership strictly limited
> to people who want to GO, practical or not.  Handicapped access
> available, no gravity well too deep!
> 
> Ad Astra, goddammit, AD ASTRA!
> 
> -- 
> Keith Lofstrom   ...!tektronix!vice!keithl   keithl@vice.TEK.COM
> MS 59-316, Tektronix, PO 500, Beaverton OR 97077  (503)-627-4052

AMEN! I say let's just go! Dammit! To hell with all the practical 
'reasons' for going to the asteroids or whatnot. Mankind will eventually
have to go out into space. curiousity is one of our greatest drives.
and I think, it makes a perfectly good reason to go out there. Just to
see what the ____ is out there. So we can say, "Yea, we did it". 

Or if you need a pratical reason ... how about the old:
I would rather be in a (self sufficeint) Mars colony when Earth 
decided to blow itself up
with the big bomb.

besides, arguing about what will we get out of space travel is fruitless.
before we went to the moon, did we know that the space program would
bring us microwave ovens, computer chips, vcr's and let's not forget
Space Food Sticks???

Heck with it. Just say GO!


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