Re: [twuug] Space Shuttle Columbia blows up on reentry!

[Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:56:09PM -0500, Jeff Duffy wrote:
>  William Gibson (creator of the cypberpunk genre of science fiction) had a
> few good things to say about the shuttle accident today:
> 
> http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/blog.asp

Cool!  I had even forgotten about his web site.

This is what I was trying to say earlier.

Nothing scares me more than giving up, even when it's me doing it.

    "Did we turn our gaze, from the castles in the distance,
     eyes cast down on the path of least resistance?"
			    -- Neil Peart

Whoops... two Peart quotes in a single day... :)

>  Beyond the merely practical, it's important that humanity as a whole have
> something inspiring to look forward to. Of all the things our tax money is
> used for, this is one of the most worthy and noble; I think most of us would
> rather have a hundred shuttles than fund a single day of war, even if
> sometimes we don't get to make that choice.

Yes, and look at NASA's budget.  Wasn't it $17 billion last year?

That wouldn't even pay for one squadron of B2 bombers, or one aircraft
carrier (by the time you add weapons and planes).

It's also tremendously less than we spend on social welfare traps,
which give hope to no one.


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