Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS](and SCIENCE) NASA Plans Lunar Outpost

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 12/5/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I'm surprised that they can mine hydrogen and oxygen from the lunar
> surface.  I hadn't heard that before.  Some of you will remember that Carl
> Sagan was an advocate for manned missions to Mars.  He was also an
> opponent of continued nuclear weapons proliferation.  He knew that you
> could only stop making more unneeded nuclear weapons if you had a way to
> intervene in the military-industrial-congressional complex.

So that explains why he was constantly proposing that incredibly
stupid, counter-productive and complete-waste-of-time manned space
program stuff. I must have gotten hundreds of fund-raising letters
from his dorky space exploration foundation thing.

Obviously, we have to find a better way to deal with this. Our society
will quite literally go away if we keep wasting tremendous amounts of
time and money on absolutely useless ventures like manned bases on
Mars. Given enough time, money, and stupidity, I'm sure we could get
there, find out that the getting there was almost completely useless,
and then turn around to find that we had been reduced to being the
23rd most powerful nation on our own planet. I'm being slightly
facetious here, but having a manned space program is almost as stupid
as fighting two land wars in Asia.

jking

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