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bromley blair pat <bromley@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>    Actually, it is pretty much cut and dried.  People are just afraid.
>    The universe is to explore for those who want to, and those who
>    want to do it can afford it.  Those who explore will benefit.

c2xrib@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (rex i beard) writes:
>NO! Those who want to do it CAN'T afford it. If they could afford
>it they wouldn't need to tax all the other people who don't want to do
>it to *pay* for the venture.

Those who want to do it COULD afford it IF there weren't a lot of
bureaucratic obstacles getting in the way.  "Two guys in a garage"
could theoretically buy and put together the necessary hardware to
put a beeping ball in orbit, but there are an awful lot of strictly
political and administrative barriers preventing such a launch.  The
engineering isn't as expensive as you make it out to be.

>But you can't do it without him, or me. You need our money and you really
>don't care how you get it. You just want to pursue your goals and you
>don't want him to whine about it.

Actually, I think we can't do it BECAUSE OF him, or you... or because of
the government officials that have no clear mandate from him or you to
"get out of the way" and let us DO WHAT WE CAN AFFORD.

>You *think* your goal is worthy and noble and you ridicule him because
>he doesn't share it. But those who disagree with your goal aren't so lowly
>that you don't want them to *pay* for it.

The ridicule should be reserved not for those who do not share the goal
but for those who would prevent us from trying to reach it.

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Alan Anderson                               | Ignorance can be fixed,
(I speak AT, not FOR, Delco Electronics)    | but stupidity is permanent.