Jon Berndt ) wrote:
: "Alan Anderson" wrote

: "curlyQlink" wrote:
:
: Let's face it, there is no popular or political support for spending
: unimaginable sums of money to do something just for the sake of doing
: it.
:
: Agreed. So the proper thing to do is consider *imaginable* costs.
: People do spend serious money on things "just for the sake of doing it",
: you know.

: You beat me to it: "Imaginable costs". For many, many reasons involving more
: than "just doing it", though. There are good reasons to do it that involve
: international competitiveness. There are growing commercial reasons to do
: so.

Such as?


: Jon