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- From: agae@palm.lle.rochester.edu (Andres C. Gaeris)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: 2001/2010 Rocket Engines - What are they?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.214823.14838@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 21:48:23 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.102943.5124@abo.fi> <1993Jan21.120247.11867@abo.fi> <1993Jan21.110438.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> <ewright.727724117@convex.convex.com>
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- > In <1993Jan21.110438.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
- >
- > On the other hand, remember that Forbidden Planet, in the 1950's,
- > began with the narrator's voice saying, "In the last decade of the
- > 21st Century, Mankind reached the Moon." Rober Heinlein was a bit
-
- Well, considering the current public and governmental attitude to expensive
- new space programs plus what is going worldwide with the space agencies,
- the _Forbidden Planet_ writers were not really off of the mark.
- I do not believe that Bill or I will reach the Moon in the next century
- (except for some really good breakthroughs in longevity and geriatrics) and
- sure that Bill and I carry a good quantity of Mankind around 8-)!
- When I was a teenager I expected to visit the moons of Saturn or at least
- Mars at my retirement age. Now my expectancies are with an orbital week-end
- draining my savings account for the same period. The bonus side is that I
- could possibly be one of the first guys in building a ICF pulse rocket,
- but I would trade it for my Saturn's moon trip!
-
- I fell like Mankind will not reach the Moon and the planets in a really
- effective way till the end of the next century. The beginning of the next
- century will be for PC technologies, 'ecologic'-cleansing, and New-Age
- illiterates trying to subvert science and technology to their own pervert
- agenda.
-
- Sorry about this tirade. It is the result of reading three times 'Fallen
- Angels' and seeing around what is going on with S&T policy.
- (Next tirade: _How the U.N./Green technological police forced me to leave
- Physics and go back to administer my family's convinience store_)
-
- Andres C. Gaeris
- A junior laser fusioneer goin' older and cynic but not wiser.
- agae@lle.rochester.edu
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