To: Orion78
Because it's not within the bounds of our constitutional government.
I'm actually very pro-space exploration, but if I wanted to fund it, I'd fund the X-Prize. We've got enough to worry about here on earth.
"To explore strange new worlds" is the mission of the Enterprise, not a passage from our constitution.
65 posted on
01/08/2004 11:51:07 PM PST by
Tim Osman
(It's okay, I wasn't using those constitutional rights anyway.)
To: Tim Osman
"To explore strange new worlds" is the mission of the Enterprise, not a passage from our constitution. Wa'al, it's not in our Constitution to develop antibiotics and vaccines, either....
105 posted on
01/09/2004 8:06:52 AM PST by
GummyIII
(I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.)
To: Tim Osman
Because it's not within the bounds of our constitutional government.I'm a libertarian (in philosophy anyway) too, and here's my take. Space exploration has more to do with 'providing for the common defense' than anything else.
The search for life or whatever is just PR by the goofy Sci-Fi readers, the NASA guys who fantasize about finding aliens and stuff. But we have to let them have their hobby because they are the ones who make these things fly.
194 posted on
01/14/2004 3:45:50 AM PST by
ovrtaxt
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