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To: kms61
... a Manhattan Project for alternate energy ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the invocation of the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Program as prototypes for some kind of miraculous effort at extracation from this predicament are unfounded.

These programs represented profilgate EXPENDITURES of energy and resources for the achievement of focused goals. They were the very epitome of the "expense be damned" philosophy, and are "180 degrees out of phase" with the realities of the situation we are now faced with.

9 posted on 05/23/2008 9:17:27 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew
These programs represented profilgate EXPENDITURES of energy and resources for the achievement of focused goals.

Amen, brother, you are exactly correct. Both occurred in a crisis period where the nation felt imperiled by a major adversary, a condition not true for today. Now if we could just get that 'cold fusion' thingy to work!

23 posted on 05/24/2008 3:07:26 AM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: dr_lew

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the invocation of the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Program as prototypes for some kind of miraculous effort at extracation from this predicament are unfounded.”

Amen


24 posted on 05/24/2008 3:33:58 AM PDT by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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