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- From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)
- Subject: Re: Justification for the Space Program
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.232911.17212@cs.rochester.edu>
- Organization: University of Rochester
- References: <21DEC199218250184@judy.uh.edu> <1992Dec22.020021.7541@cs.rochester.edu> <22DEC199214411374@judy.uh.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:29:11 GMT
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- In article <22DEC199214411374@judy.uh.edu> wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov writes:
-
- > I will no longer debate you on this subject. You have your "opinions",
- > which is all your responses to date have been, and I have mine. You
- > work for your worldview and we will work for ours.
- >
- > You speak of quasi-religiousness when the exact same thing can be said
- > of your asserations.
-
- Oh, *please*. I've posted numerous quantitative arguments in rebuttal
- to your claims. I can even provide references for those numbers, if
- you'd like.
-
- > I have work to do. I live in the real world. If you actually think
- > things are getting better from a world perspective then you are truly
- > blind. This is a simple fact, not a flame.
-
- By most objective measures, the world is getting better. The world
- has never been, on average, wealthier, healthier, better fed, or
- better educated than it is today. These are *facts*. You can look up
- the numbers. These trends have been going on for decades, in spite of
- the continuous (and continuously wrong) doomsaying.
-
- Paul F. Dietz
- dietz@cs.rochester.edu
-