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Article #7252Re: Justification for the Space Program
From: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 19:37
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 19:37
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In <93002.204240SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes: >A functioning economy (a whole one - heavy manufacturing, food growing, >service sector, the whole nine yards) on the Moon is in a what military >position with respect to the earth? A damned fragile one. If access is suffiently easy to allow the development of such an economy, tossing bombs at it will also be sufficiently easy -- and cracking your house open on the Moon, unlike doing it on Earth, will KILL you. >Sounds like a justification to me.... Not hardly, Heinlein stories implying otherwise notwithstanding. -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) Subject: Re: Justification for the Space Program Message-ID: <1993Jan6.193747.5715@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Organization: Texas Instruments Inc References: <1992Dec28.193940.10495@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec28.223226.12849@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <93002.204240SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:37:47 GMT Lines: 20