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SPACE Digest                                      Volume 2 : Issue 96

Today's Topics:
	   Government Funding of Exploration (previous article)
			     Shuttle Progress
		Re: sri-unix.660: ARPANET Withholding Tax?
			  Time Article on Ariane
			    space duplication
			       poking agin
			       post script
			 TECHNOLOGY VS. HUMANISM
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Date: Mon Feb  1 15:36:32 1982
To: Space at MIT-MC
From: ARPAVAX.Onyx.jmrubin at Berkeley
Subject: Government Funding of Exploration (previous article)
Source-Info:  From (or Sender) name not authenticated.

	As I recall, off hand, the British East India Company and the
Hudson's Bay Company, and the British West India Company were NOT
supported by laissez-faire types.  They supported MERCANTILISM
which was precisely what laissez-faire types were against.

					Joel Rubin

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Date: Tue Feb  2 07:49:36 1982
To: Space at MIT-MC
From: ucbvax!mhtsa!alice!sjb at Berkeley
Subject: Shuttle Progress
Source-Info:  From (or Sender) name not authenticated.

At midnight tonight, the shuttle Columbia will be moved, a day early,
from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
There, it will be mated with the external tank and SRB assembly.  NASA
officials say that the shuttle should be able to be rolled to pad 39A
by 21 February, leading to a late March launch.

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Date: Tue Feb  2 09:23:23 1982
To: Space at MIT-MC
From: ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!chico!duke!dukgeri!ccw at Berkeley
Subject: Re: sri-unix.660: ARPANET Withholding Tax?
Source-Info:  From (or Sender) name not authenticated.

The problem with missing parts of messages appears to originate at ARPAVAX.
Their "news" program is throwing away first lines and, from what I hear,
everybody who can fix it is at the USENIX conference!

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Date: Tue Feb  2 11:15:13 1982
To: Space at MIT-MC
From: ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!karn at Berkeley
Subject: Time Article on Ariane
Source-Info:  From (or Sender) name not authenticated.

The current issue of Time Magazine (February 8, 1982) has an article on the
European Space Agency's Ariane launcher, along with a picture of the
nighttime liftoff of L04 (the fourth test flight conducted last month).

Arianespace, the private corporation that will handle commercial
launches of the Ariane, is currently asking $25 million per launch.

Phil Karn

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Date: Tue Feb  2 11:57:01 1982
To: Space at MIT-MC
From: ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!uwvax!jon at Berkeley
Subject: space duplication
Source-Info:  From (or Sender) name not authenticated.

The easiest way to prevent duplication of articles in net.space
and arpanet's space digest is to do away with net.space!
why have a set-up where we KNOW that articles will come out twice?
why make the digest moderator clean up the mess?
          Jon Mauney (uwvax!jon)

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Date: Tue Feb  2 12:14:01 1982
To: Space at MIT-MC
From: ucbvax!decvax!yale-com!harley at Berkeley
Subject: poking agin
Source-Info:  From (or Sender) name not authenticated.


for the record, i am an artist (writer & painter, mostly) who supports
himself by programming computers. i know a number of other artists.
i don't know any ARTISTS who disparage technology. i know a few humanists
who disparage technology, but they are in the minority. personally,
i don't disparage technology, but i tend to be very thoughtful, so i
think a lot of technology is not worth having. like food processors 
& neutron bombs. i know a lot of scientists too, & a fair number of them
have a very limited appreciation of art. the scientists/technoligists
i know who do appreciate art tend to be humanists as well, so i think
the comparison of techno-humano is balderdash. there are just people
who are more limited than others. however, they don't bother me as much
as people who are DEPENDENT on technology. 

                                         - me again   (yale-comix!harley)

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Date: Tue Feb  2 12:27:36 1982
To: Space at MIT-MC
From: ucbvax!decvax!yale-com!harley at Berkeley
Subject: post script
Source-Info:  From (or Sender) name not authenticated.


post script to last message:

i would regard the space program as a very expensive piece of art with
some technological spinoffs.

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Date: 2 February 1982 23:46-EST
From: Gene Salamin <ES at MIT-MC>
Subject: TECHNOLOGY VS. HUMANISM
To: SPACE at MIT-MC

     A long time ago I forgot what started this discussion.  It doesn't
seem to be related to space issues.  Let's move it to some other mailing list.

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