On Mon, 12 May 2008 01:40:47 -0500, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:



M wrote:
I read in a book once that he commented to a space official at
Huntsville or Michoud after seeing all of the Apollo Saturn
infrastructure that
"it was too bad that all of this will be ****ed away" after the Apollo
Program ended.


What else could you do with it?
You could build a giant space station (pretty pointless, as we found out
with the ISS).

It's only pointless if you can't afford to get to it. Which in fact
would have been the case if we were constrained to Saturn.