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- From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
- Subject: Space List Flame Wars
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:06:42 GMT
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- I subscribed to this list in order to try to inform myself about the latest
- news about US and other coutnries' space programs. I thought that this would
- be a list of technical discussions, not a religious debate that has turned
- into ad hominem attacks and flame wars as virulent as any I've seen in the
- religious news groups. Then I see things like this, from Herman Rubin:
-
- >Let those who want to support research decide. But get the governments
- >out of the way, including out of levying taxes on money going to research.
- >If the government was not involved in the business of vainly trying to
- >manage charity, which it does in such a way as to make it financially
- >advantageous for at least many of those on welfare to do nothing about
- >the problem, and in the business of keeping our children very poorly
- >educated, and in general making it expensive to do anything of which
- >the government diasapproves, there would be the money for space activities.
-
- and this from Henry Spencer:
-
- >We'll be mining in space long before we exploit any of the sea-bottom
- >resources. The socialists rule the oceans and don't want any dirty
- >capitalist mining venture making money off the "common property of
- >mankind". The US State Department was on the brink of giving them the
- >rest of the universe too, but the L5 Society (may it rest in peace)
- >managed to block Senate ratification of the infamous Moon Treaty.
-
- Such political ranting belongs in the alt.talk.politics or alt.religion
- groups. Could we please take them out of the space list?
-
- In addition, there is much too much signal to noise ratio in the flame wars
- and the ad hominem attacks. Could we move them out of the list and into
- private emails? There is too much heat and not enough light coming out
- of them.
-
- I know that I have now left myself wide open to being attacked from all
- sides, but I just thought that, considering the size of the mailings that I'm
- getting, there is too much of this stuff to wade through to get to anything
- worth reading.
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