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To: tricky_k_1972

We should have been off this backwater hole thirty years ago. What is the holdup?

7 posted on 02/07/2006 2:19:16 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)

To: RightWhale

"We should have been off this backwater hole thirty years ago. What is the holdup?"

There's no national will to do it. Indeed, there's a growing trend to ridicule space exploration and science in general in this country. Sad stuff.

8 posted on 02/07/2006 2:21:51 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)

To: RightWhale

We should have been off this backwater hole thirty years ago. What is the holdup?

Until the powers that be can figure out a way to retain control over people out there, we're not getting off.

America was a big lesson in what happens when pissed off indivdualists get away from the elite.

33 posted on 02/07/2006 3:25:45 PM PST by Centurion2000 (If the USA was the Roman Empire, Islam would have ceased to be a problem on 9/12/2001)

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