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- From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Justification
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- Date: 26 Dec 92 17:27:54 GMT
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- -From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- -Subject: Re: Justification for the Space Program
- -Date: 25 Dec 92 17:43:41 GMT
- -Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
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- -And those who do not recognize the value of human ingenuity want us to
- -waste the time of the productive people by making them wait for public
- -transportation,
-
- You mean by implementing HOV lanes on highways near cities?
-
- -and keeping the bright from getting an education by
- -putting them in classes with the mentally deficient.
-
- Has anyone had personal experience with magnet schools? I'm curious about
- whether they provide any benefit.
-
- -What else can one call the government blocking of
- -human endeavor, including going to space?
-
- If you're referring to the government's policy of holding people who launch
- accountable for damage their spacecraft might do on the ground, I disagree.
- A similar policy is applied to people in the US who want to drive automobiles
- on other than private land (with the permission of the owner).
-
- John Roberts
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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