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Stuart Croall (umcroall@cc.umanitoba.ca) wrote:
: > What about colonizing? Seems you want to limit mankinds potential to
: > "go where no one has gone before" simply to save money. What do you
: > propose to do with all this saved money?

: > You are proposing limiting the potential technogical advances we can
: > make in this area of research, but to what end? 


: > Ken

: My friend, I don't think we should be off colonizing any other planets, 
: and I think it's irresponsible to consider that while ignoring the 
: reasons we were unable to survive here!  I think all of this saved money 
: could be used to keep the Jets in Winnipeg.:)  No seriously, why can't 

I'd agree here ;-).

: this money be reinvested to, oh, pay off the debt, which everyone wants 
: to use social program money for.  When that's done, we can use it to 
: provide free post-secondary education and improve our other levels of 
: education...there are always ways to spend money.

Overall, a very narrow view of the future. We will, eventually, run out of
resources here. Hell, we might even make the place uninhabitable. But, by
and large, the best reason for continuing with space orientated research is
that we are naturally born explorers. We will get to space some day, and the
things you mentioned(aside from the debt and the Jets) are an individuals
responsibility, already heavily subsidized by the taxpayer. And, guess what, 
some of those people may want to use the education that they are provided,
and that you would provide them, to explore the area that you would preclude
them from.

Ken

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