On 17 Feb, 15:09, (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:53:15 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
Ian Parker made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:





On 17 Feb, 14:32, Wallace Wright wrote:
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:17:05PM -0500, "Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 " wrote:

Mark R. Whittington wrote:
Recently both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were interviewed by the
editorial board of the Houston Chronicle. While Hillary Clinton seemed
to flip flop on space policy, Barack Obama reiterated his opposition
to publically funded human space flight.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art..._clinton_and_b...

We could have a base on every moon in the solar system for what the
stupid ****ing president has spent on his war machine.

That's a good point although I doubt the monies would have bought
moonbases, as such. *There can be no real argument that had the war
expenditures been redirected at advancing the state of the art in space and
rocket systems, commercial off-planet access of any kind would be an
entirely different proposition.

I suppose it boils down to a question of priorities. *Those with the purse-
strings are sold on the war, and so that's where the money goes.

Wallace Wright

Your logic defeats me.

*Everyone's* logic defeats you, since you have no comprehension of
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Oh! Youve started up again with your friend Wallace. Don't know what
his real name is. He writes under a pseudonym. says so himself.
Perhaps he has several. No one knows. Is he a woman, Geoge Elliot was.
Could I ask you a question, a simple English question. What does the
word "commercial" mean? Surely it is to do with trading and making
money.


- Ian Parker