🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan22.214823.14838@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, agae@palm.lle.rochester.edu (Andres C. Gaeris) writes:
> Well, considering the current public and governmental attitude to expensive
> new space programs plus what is going worldwide with the space agencies,
> the _Forbidden Planet_ writers were not really off of the mark.
> I do not believe that Bill or I will reach the Moon in the next century

 Well, we're sure not gonna do it in this one...

> (except for some really good breakthroughs in longevity and geriatrics) and
> sure that Bill and I carry a good quantity of Mankind around 8-)!

Andres, we need to reduce launch cost-per-pound!

> I fell like Mankind will not reach the Moon and the planets in a really
> effective way till the end of the next century. The beginning of the next
> century will be for PC technologies, 'ecologic'-cleansing, and New-Age
> illiterates trying to subvert science and technology to their own pervert
> agenda.

Ooh, flame fodder if I ever saw any!  I sure hope you're not right...
but you might be.

> Sorry about this tirade. It is the result of reading three times 'Fallen
> Angels' and seeing around what is going on with S&T policy.

This novel has been proven by doctors to be bad for your mental
health.

> (Next tirade: _How the U.N./Green technological police forced me to leave
> Physics and go back to administer my family's convinience store_)

Is this real, or are you dreaming about *Fallen Angels* again?  It
would  be a great loss to North American science if you did.

Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey              | "Enough marshmallows
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory  | will kill you 
Bitnet:           HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET  | if properly placed."
Internet:       HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV  | --John Alexander, leader of
SPAN/Hepnet:           43011::HIGGINS  | "disabling technologies"
 [*Aviation Week*, 7 Dec 1992, p. 50]  | research, Los Alamos