A red moon after all?

It is amazing that one of the historical breaking news of human kind
is hardly mentioned by the biggest, loud mouth, bully media in the
world. I wonder if others notice the miniscule news being reported on
this event by its giant TV media or in its internet website. They
usually roar like a lion, but today they are quiet like a mouse.
Good thing that they found other news to fill the time slot... bomb
attack in Gaza, ferry accident in NY, CUB losing the game, or removing
feeding tube in Florida.

Mike Combs wrote in message ...
Geoff Blackmore wrote:

It'll be interesting to see if the US steps up to a new space race,

The original space race began because the US was electrified by the news of
Sputnik. To gauge the extent to which the nation is electrified by the news of
the Chinese launch, I would submit as evidence the half-hour of CNN Headline
News I watched this morning. They led with a sports story, spent about 5
minutes on the Kobe Bryant case, and then spent less than 30 seconds on the
launch over half way through.

or will
the war on terrorism and growing deficit ensure the US can't afford it?

There will be no galvanization of our space efforts, but I think you're
pointing at the wrong reasons. The real reason is that nobody cares who's
doing what in space these days.

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Regards,
Mike Combs
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We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the
best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the
Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely.
Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is
"somewhere else entirely."

Gerard O'Neill - "The High Frontier"