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Re: Follow-up to "The End of Canadians in Space?"

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From: Rand Simberg
Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00
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In <3o8m5i$f5e@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> umcroall@cc.umanitoba.ca
(Stuart Croall) writes: 

>>Incidentally, why do you think this planet is "ours" but this solar
>>system isn't?
>
>Well I didn't mean ours in the sense that we have some kind of
>exclusive title to it, but it is where we shoed up, as opposed to be
>on mars and other planets...

And when and how did you "shoe up" in Manitoba?  I don't think that any
primates evolved on the plains of southern Canada.  I presume that you
came there from elsewhere, or your ancestors did.  Why is it OK to live
in Canada, when you didn't evolve there, but not on Mars?
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From: simberg@ix.netcom.com (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: Follow-up to "The End of Canadians in Space?"
Date: 1995/05/04
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