RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] space shuttle explodes?

["Heivilin, Jim" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Miller [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] space shuttle explodes?
> 
> On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Michael wrote:
> 
> > Woah. Anyone else following the story about the shuttle exploding?
<snip>
>I think maybe 114 total.  2/114 = 1.75%
>
>That's more risk than I'd like to take.  So if I'm ever invited to fly 
>on a space shuttle, I'll decline!
>
More room for me.  

I don't usually comment on any threads here but I suspect if we could
assemble some numbers there a greater chance of dying in a car accident
on your way to work than this, statistically speaking.  Or a plane crash
(terrorists not withstanding).  

To address the "what have we gotten out of it?" question in later posts,
you're typing on one of the advances, HELLO???? Sorry, don't really mean
to be rude but anti-space advocates get under my skin in a big way.  It
would take some research to document (here) all the advances of the moon
landing program but we're finally seeing most of them now, twenty and
thirty years later.  Continued advances spurned by programs to build
orbiting space stations and land on the other planets in this system can
only help.  Granted it's hideously expensive but would you rather see
the money to into some politician or corporate CEO's pocket?  Or into
defense spending?  

And since we've *mostly* explored this planet the Spirit of Exploration
which seems to reside in quite a few of us can only be satisfied by
leaving the planet. 

Jim

Jim Heivilin, System Administrator,
IAT Services, 
University of Missouri at Columbia
mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED, (573) 884-3898  

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