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- From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Andres's Tirade (was Re: 2001/2010 Rocket Engines - What are they?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.111821.1@fnalf.fnal.gov>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:18:21 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.102943.5124@abo.fi> <1993Jan21.120247.11867@abo.fi> <1993Jan21.110438.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> <ewright.727724117@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan22.214823.14838@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan22.214823.14838@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, agae@palm.lle.rochester.edu (Andres C. Gaeris) writes:
- > 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
-
- Well, we're sure not gonna do it in this one...
-
- > (except for some really good breakthroughs in longevity and geriatrics) and
- > sure that Bill and I carry a good quantity of Mankind around 8-)!
-
- Andres, we need to reduce launch cost-per-pound!
-
- > 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.
-
- Ooh, flame fodder if I ever saw any! I sure hope you're not right...
- but you might be.
-
- > 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.
-
- This novel has been proven by doctors to be bad for your mental
- health.
-
- > (Next tirade: _How the U.N./Green technological police forced me to leave
- > Physics and go back to administer my family's convinience store_)
-
- Is this real, or are you dreaming about *Fallen Angels* again? It
- would be a great loss to North American science if you did.
-
- Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey | "Enough marshmallows
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | will kill you
- Bitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET | if properly placed."
- Internet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV | --John Alexander, leader of
- SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS | "disabling technologies"
- [*Aviation Week*, 7 Dec 1992, p. 50] | research, Los Alamos
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