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To: Mamzelle
If you insist on showing up for these threads you should at least have something new to say. But no, every time, the same old tired s**t."...a few boys and their fanboys crave a cool ride."

Why do you even bother?

24 posted on 09/25/2005 8:48:21 AM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: SunTzuWu
I also wonder why someone would bother to say, "shut up" on an internet discussion forum.

But I'll do you the courtesy of pretending to take your comment seriously.

In the seventies, the space program got seriously sidetracked because a powerful astronaut personality had a certain agenda concerning the legacy of pilots. His orientation was flying, not exploration--and he wanted to keep it that way. His admirers were legion, and they signed on to that agenda and we got the Space Shuttle and the Space Station and we did so much riding that Russia starting selling rides to multimillionaires. Did we learn anything? Did we go anywhere?

The only new and exciting stuff went "under the radar" in the form of astronomy research, robotics, probes, and nifty cameras. I pointed out (new stuff) that we did a very cool and complicated and brilliant thing with "Deep Impact."

Now the same old pilots are trying to turn the focus, yet again, back to Rides to Nowhere at Ruinous Cost. There is no good reason to go back to the moon. There are lots of good reasons to ratchet up our robotics technology and start sending out probes by the hundreads. What we learn would enrich our satellite infrastructure and provide lots of spinoff goodies.

The bad news--the human body cannot tolerate long months and years in space. We just can't go right now...but we can send eyes, and hands, and ears and brains into space. I want to go right now. Let the silly pilots go play with Rutan and get out of the way of MY ride...

64 posted on 09/26/2005 7:21:12 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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