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Far Left Group Opposes a Return to the Moon
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Far Left Group Opposes a Return to the Moon
Hop David wrote: Mark R. Whittington wrote: For your outrage: http://www.tompaine.com/images/dynamic/427.pdf Well, I think a return to the moon may be a waste of money. If it's another Flags and Footprints exercise, it won't be a sustainable return to space. Better to encourage the private sector. Maybe the free market can do the same thing for space flight that it did for airplanes and computers. Airplanes got off to a good free market start by the Wright Brothers who beat out a government financed effort by Langley. The development of the airplane has been an intertwined government and private thing ever since. War has had a greater effect on the development of the airplane than commerce, at least in the early decades. Computers were successfully developed as a government project. Micro-computers (PCs) were mainly a free market development at least in their proliferation through the entire world. Main Frame computers were a combination of free market and government development. I don't know if I'm liberal or conservative. But I regard the above as one of my conservative opinions. Discourage big government and encourage good, healthy capitalism. -- Hop David http://clowder.net/hop/index.html Encourage the private sector to do what? The private sector, at least most of it, wants to get its money back and doesn't usually want to wait to long to get it. My belief is that it is time for the government to get its act together and provide the background exploration and technology development that can show a path to profit that the private sector will be willing to follow. Initially it is most likely to be selling things to the government for their projects. And: Back to the Moon! In this respect Zubrin is wrong. Mike Walsh |
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Christopher wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:32:36 -0700, Hop David wrote: Mark R. Whittington wrote: For your outrage: http://www.tompaine.com/images/dynamic/427.pdf Well, I think a return to the moon may be a waste of money. If it's another Flags and Footprints exercise, it won't be a sustainable return to space. Better to encourage the private sector. Maybe the free market can do the same thing for space flight that it did for airplanes and computers. Do you really want to see the Micro$oft flag on the Moon? Sure, why not? Mike Walsh |
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Far Left Group Opposes a Return to the Moon
"Dr. O" dr.o@xxxxx wrote in message ...
Besides tourism, I haven't yet heard a convincing case for private investment in space activity. Some twisted branch of entertainment industry ? If and when space tourism picks up, im almost certain that entertainment industry will jump to grab a piece if not a significant chunk of the pie. With some creative thinking, with involvement of entertainment industry, it would be also possible to push ahead of tourism developments. In short, get John Woo to direct your moon landing and positive cashflow sources become obvious. -kert |
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"Christopher" wrote in message ... Do you really want to see the Micro$oft flag on the Moon? To expand on the one liners others have used to answer this. Do you feel that the Micro$oft that most of us now use is worse than the computer availability to the public in the 70s? I'm not defending MS, or claiming that there are no better suppliers for their product, just asking if MS is worse than what was available 3 decades ago. Do you feel that a Delta Airlines monopoly would be worse than what we have now if seats were $2,000.00 to LEO and $10,000.00 to the moon? |
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Far Left Group Opposes a Return to the Moon
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:58:15 GMT, "johnhare"
wrote: "Christopher" wrote in message ... Do you really want to see the Micro$oft flag on the Moon? To expand on the one liners others have used to answer this. Do you feel that the Micro$oft that most of us now use is worse than the computer availability to the public in the 70s? I'm not defending MS, or claiming that there are no better suppliers for their product, just asking if MS is worse than what was available 3 decades ago. Yes, and Do you feel that a Delta Airlines monopoly would be worse than what we have now if seats were $2,000.00 to LEO and $10,000.00 to the moon? Yes. Christopher +++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." Winston Churchill |
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Far Left Group Opposes a Return to the Moon
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:51:03 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote: "Christopher" wrote in message ... Do you really want to see the Micro$oft flag on the Moon? Why not? Gate$ has no right to screw up the moon. Christopher +++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." Winston Churchill |
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Far Left Group Opposes a Return to the Moon
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:22:48 GMT, Michael Walsh
wrote: Christopher wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:32:36 -0700, Hop David wrote: Mark R. Whittington wrote: For your outrage: http://www.tompaine.com/images/dynamic/427.pdf Well, I think a return to the moon may be a waste of money. If it's another Flags and Footprints exercise, it won't be a sustainable return to space. Better to encourage the private sector. Maybe the free market can do the same thing for space flight that it did for airplanes and computers. Do you really want to see the Micro$oft flag on the Moon? Sure, why not? Would you put your life in the hands of a MS piece of software? Christopher +++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." Winston Churchill |
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Far Left Group Opposes a Return to the Moon
Christopher wrote:
Would you put your life in the hands of a MS piece of software? Are you quite certain that you never have? Jim Davis |
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