8 Jun
2000
8 Jun
'00
10:43 p.m.
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Paul Braun wrote:
The space program, while costing the taxpayers a
sizable amount
of money, has produced huge quantities of spinoff projects and
technologies that have definitely benefitted mankind.
Yeah! Like Tang and Velcro!
If you take the previous poster's comments back
several hundred
years, the Spanish could have said, "Why should the Queen spend
our money on that Columbus guy? He's just some obnoxious
"explorer" who only wants to satisfy his curiosity. What a waste!
We have everything we need, right here."
Bad example :)
I've been following the space program for as long
as I can
remember, and it always irritates me when someone says that the
only reason we're doing it is to make some sci-fi geeks happy.
Most of the people in the space industry, I would venture to guess,
are probably not sci-fi nuts but damn good engineers and scientists
who are gaining a lot of valuable research from NASA and the like.
Yeah!
;)
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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