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Article #7360killing the shuttle
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 22:54
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 22:54
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In article <ewright.726434023@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>>Unlike Allen, I am completely convinced that killing Shuttle now will
>>not cause any money to be reprogrammed to his pet schemes.
>
>So am I. I am also completely convinced it would wipe out
>a major political base opposed to alternative launchers.
You don't get rid of civil servants and politically-powerful contractors
that easily. If you wipe out the Imperial Deathstar, they'll only start
building another one.
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"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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