Zubrin and Park will debate!

Space policy will have its own version of King Kong vs. Godzilla at the
Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington on Thursday, February 5,
beginning at 5:30PM. Namely, a debate between Robert Zubrin and Robert
Park. If you haven't read this newsgroup much, Zubrin is president of the
Mars Society. He advocates an aggressive program of human spaceflight,
especially a manned mission to Mars. Park maintains that manned
spaceflight is a national distraction and a waste of taxpayer money.
He is Director for Public Information at the American Physical Society.
They will debate President Bush's new space plan and manned spaceflight
in general.

Other details and free registration are he

http://www.eppc.org/conferences/even...onf_detail.asp

Personally I think that Park is right and Zubrin is wrong. And don't
get me started on Bush's plan. But I would still be interested in a web
recording or transcript of the debate. I don't know if EPPC itself is
going to tape the event or allow someone to bring a camcorder.

If you really want the original "Kingukongu tai Gojira" instead, you
should go to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056142/ .

--
/\ Greg Kuperberg (UC Davis)
/ \
\ / Visit the Math ArXiv Front at http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/
\/ * All the math that's fit to e-print *