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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: sci.space,talk.rumors,misc.headlines
Subject: Re: Discovery - UFO Close Encounter?
Message-ID: <1190@frog.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 89 23:40:00 GMT
References: <4440@drivax.UUCP> <7751@pyr.gatech.EDU> <355@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <7767@pyr.gatech.EDU>
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In article <7767@pyr.gatech.EDU>, ccoprmd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Matthew T. DeLuca) writes:
> In article <355@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> sw@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Stuart Warmink) writes:
> >Ah, but who said they would want to contact the US government!   :->
> >("Wellcome, Comrad Alien")
> Well, from orbit, the United States is clearly the most advanced nation on 
> Earth.  More roads, dams, and bridges are in the U.S. than anywhere else on
> Earth.  Compared to the U.S., the Soviet Union is third-rate, at best.  

Yes, but the bulk of the stuff *going TO orbit* comes from the Soviet Union.
Compared to the S.U., the United States isn't even competing...

Now, if spaceflight was important enough to YOU to travel N light years
in a dingy old can, which would you find more interesting...?  (unless, of
course, you planned to do a little driving while you were here :-)
-- 
John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (508) 626-1101
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