On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:28:27 -0600, "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote:

.... Quite a few more more didn't believe
that, but didn't want to take a chance on being wrong. (In other words,
they were too cowardly to stand for their principles.)


I don't think cowardice is a factor; like you say, no one knows (A)
who was right and (B) wants to be remembered in the same breath as
Herbert Hoover.



"actually go[ing] somewhere in space" pales against that. It simply is
not the same priority.


Sad but true.




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