Bush signs new space policy

jonathan wrote:
"Gareth Slee" wrote in message
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This shouldn't upset any other country!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6063926.stm

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Gareth Slee


Notice that our first and primary 'space goal' is security.
This sounds like something Kissinger would write.
The White House is like a computer.
White trash in....white trash out.


3. United States Space Policy Goals

The fundamental goals of this policy are to:

· Strengthen the nation's space leadership and ensure that space
capabilities are available in time to further U.S. national security,
homeland security, and foreign policy objectives;


Wouldn't be surprised, President Bush uses a
science....fiction...writer for his advisor on global
warming. You know him, the guy that wrote
Jurassic Park.
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2006/...on_for_bu.html



Good. That's what we need. Another Cold War to get the Space Race
moving again.

;-)


Rusty

"Rusty" wrote in message
ups.com...

jonathan wrote:
"Gareth Slee" wrote in message
. ..
This shouldn't upset any other country!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6063926.stm

--
Gareth Slee


Notice that our first and primary 'space goal' is security.
This sounds like something Kissinger would write.
The White House is like a computer.
White trash in....white trash out.


3. United States Space Policy Goals

The fundamental goals of this policy are to:

· Strengthen the nation's space leadership and ensure that space
capabilities are available in time to further U.S. national security,
homeland security, and foreign policy objectives;


Wouldn't be surprised, President Bush uses a
science....fiction...writer for his advisor on global
warming. You know him, the guy that wrote
Jurassic Park.
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2006/...on_for_bu.html



Good. That's what we need. Another Cold War to get the Space Race
moving again.

;-)


What bugs me about that policy statement is the part "available in time
to.."

In time for N Korea??? I hope the time frame he's talking about
isn't before he leaves. I just have this feeling Bush has one more
campaign in mind for those last few months in office.










Rusty

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, jonathan wrote:
"Rusty" wrote in message
jonathan wrote:
"Gareth Slee" wrote in message

This shouldn't upset any other country!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6063926.stm

Notice that our first and primary 'space goal' is security.
This sounds like something Kissinger would write.
The White House is like a computer.
White trash in....white trash out.

3. United States Space Policy Goals

The fundamental goals of this policy are to:

· Strengthen the nation's space leadership and ensure that space
capabilities are available in time to further U.S. national security,
homeland security, and foreign policy objectives;

Good. That's what we need. Another Cold War to get the Space Race
moving again.

With a president like Bush, what's makes you think US would win this time?

"William Elliot" a écrit dans le message de news:
...

With a president like Bush, what's makes you think US would win this time?

Who cares?

A space race now will be good for getting mankind out of its craddle,
whoever wins it.

In article ,
frédéric haessig wrote:
With a president like Bush, what's makes you think US would win this time?

A space race now will be good for getting mankind out of its craddle,
whoever wins it.

Hardly. The last one didn't actually make all that much progress in that
direction, and we're still trying to recover from its unpleasant side
effects (such as the deep assumption that doing anything in space costs
billions and hence is possible only for governments).

And cheering the idea of a new Cold War just for the sake of a space race
(assuming that the latter is an inevitable consequence of the former,
which is questionable at best) is appallingly naive. Guys, on several
occasions the last Cold War came horrifyingly close to wrecking our
civilization and killing just about all of us. There's no reason to
believe that we'd dodge the bullet a second time.
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Henry Spencer wrote:

And cheering the idea of a new Cold War just for the sake of a space race
(assuming that the latter is an inevitable consequence of the former,
which is questionable at best) is appallingly naive. Guys, on several
occasions the last Cold War came horrifyingly close to wrecking our
civilization and killing just about all of us. There's no reason to
believe that we'd dodge the bullet a second time.

The Cold War also cost, what, something like $20 trillion after
adjusting for inflation?

Paul

In message , Paul F. Dietz
writes
Henry Spencer wrote:

And cheering the idea of a new Cold War just for the sake of a space race
(assuming that the latter is an inevitable consequence of the former,
which is questionable at best) is appallingly naive. Guys, on several
occasions the last Cold War came horrifyingly close to wrecking our
civilization and killing just about all of us. There's no reason to
believe that we'd dodge the bullet a second time.

The Cold War also cost, what, something like $20 trillion after
adjusting for inflation?


I've mentioned this before, but isn't "cost" a very slippery term in
war?
For instance, WWII cost the UK an astronomical sum, but what did it
cost the USA?