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Article #606Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics
From: Charlie Sorsby
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 1990 13:39
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 1990 13:39
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In article <9954@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, gerry@cive.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes: > In article <KAS.90Jul18175627@casandra.cs.aber.ac.uk> kas@cs.aber.ac.uk (Kevin Sharp) writes: > to him (Heck, he volunteered didn't he?), the affect on the public is > tremendous, especially given that our media tends to blow such things > way out of proportion. Yep! Compare the media "coverage" of the 3 astronauts killed with that of the 40 to 50 *thousand* killed in motor vehicles *each year*. This is a simplistic comparison if one considers only absolute numbers of participants. Consider it in terms of participant-miles and it becomes, I believe, rather less simplistic. Best, Charlie Sorsby "I'm the NRA!" crs@lanl.gov sorsby@pprg.unm.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!umich!yale!cmcl2!lanl!lambda!crs From: crs@lambda.UUCP (Charlie Sorsby) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics Summary: shuttle vs. automobiles Message-ID: <14446@lambda.UUCP> Date: 20 Jul 90 13:39:50 GMT References: <2787@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <18608@ttidca.TTI.COM> <9954@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Lines: 21