To: RightWhale
They aren't listening, y'know. The whistlers have their fingers in their ears. In this case, they can't concieve of history repeating itself.
I am not having an anxiety attack over this, but it does concern me.
Russia was considered backward, too. Oh gee, this is a Russian-derivative spacecraft, isn't? Curious...
36 posted on
10/15/2003 10:08:56 AM PDT by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Frank_Discussion
Russia was considered backward, too. Oh gee, this is a Russian-derivative spacecraft, isn't? Curious... The dirty secret is that manned space flight isn't really that difficult, once you've figured out how to reliably put things in orbit in the first place. The cost of manned spaceflight comes as a result of safety factors -- "don't kill the crew" sorts of things.
39 posted on
10/15/2003 10:16:02 AM PDT by
r9etb
To: Frank_Discussion
They aren't listening, y'know. True. A massive epidemic of infectious 'don't care.'
40 posted on
10/15/2003 10:22:23 AM PDT by
RightWhale
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