Jeff Findley ) wrote:

: "Scott Lowther" wrote in message
: ...
: Paul F. Dietz wrote:
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: No, terminating the manned space program is clearly a better approach.
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:
:
: boggle
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: Yeah. Right.
:
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: See, Scott, there's your problem. When otherwise intelligent people
: such as yourself go so astray, it's often because their belief systems
: have some latent falsehoods. You take the worthiness of the manned
: space program as an item of almost religious dogma.
:
:
: Astonishing.

: So you agree or disagree with Paul's assessment? I tend to think he's
: right. Because I used to think like you, up until I started getting my
: aerospace engineering degree and started looking at why launch costs are so
: high.

: Sending a few NASA astronauts to the moon won't make us any more of a
: spacefaring nation than Apollo did, so what's the point of Apollo 2.0?

Well we were in Vietnam when Apollo occurred and were in Iraq when were
discussing Apollo 2. Why not? You justify this war and then I'll justify
going back to the moon. Deal?

Maybe there isn't any logic in either one, but I sure as hell like one
better than the other. How about you?

Eric

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