Subject: Lecture Summary: What if SETI Succeeds, myth that we're prepared (
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Mr. White implies that we should claim 'Personal Space' as a right. What
about normal flight? Doesn't this come under our rights as well? If this is
so then shouldn't something like the FAA be created for Space Travel?
But if we were to have what you propose in normal flight, then what about
all of the risks that are entailed with that? Look at people when they drive
an automobile. Look at the amount of recklessness and stupidity that occurs
on a daily basis there. Between drunk driving, speeding (not that I have
never speeded) and deaths on the road on a daily basis, and that's in two
dimensions. What would happen if everyone had access to an airplane? Then
they're succeptable to collision in three dimensions... then deal with space
travel: you have people who would get space sick and not realize it, you
would have the 'rich guy on the block' throwing parties on his brand new
Buick Spacelark Deluxe and 'orbiting' drunk, landing drunk, etc.
Don't you think there is a better way to take advantage of space other
than attempting to go about it in this manner?
Stuart Goldman
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Date: 12 Oct 92 05:17:15 GMT
From: Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>
Subject: lunar advertising
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In article <718874018snx@osea.demon.co.uk> andy@osea.demon.co.uk (Andrew Haveland-Robinson) writes:
>>I've heard of a proposal to "paint" the Coke logo on the Moon. Using a
>>highly reflective "dust", say titanium dioxide smoke particles, sputtered
>>onto the surface by an electron beam from a lunar orbiting satellite.
>>The layer could be molecules thick...
>
>Argghh!! Conceptually brilliant - the ultimate graffito!
Old idea, actually. Heinlein's "The Man Who Sold The Moon" included a
similar concept nearly half a century ago. And did it with a bit more
sophistication, too: the Coke logo wouldn't be legible to the naked eye,
it's too complex... but "7UP" would be... so how much would Coke pay
to buy up the advertising concession in perpetuity to ensure it is
never used...?
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Date: 11 Oct 92 19:13:01 GMT
From: Michael Corbin <Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG>
Subject: Roswell
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The recent exchange about Roswell was interesting. Below is a reprint of an article which appeared in a "science" magazine about the crash recovery investigation being conducted by a retired Air Force Intelligence officer. Although there is *no* hard evidence that the vehicle recovered was an extraterrestrial spacecraft, the testimony collected by Randle and Schmitt does provide some compelling circumstance that it was very foreign.
This is only the tip of the iceberg on information that R&S have collected. If you want more, let me know.
This article was taken from Air&Space magazine October/November
1992.
Reprinted without permission. Prepared by Michael Keithly.
In a response to a letter of authenticity of the Roswell events
Kevin Randle replied.
The events that took place near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947
are well documented. The question is no longer if something
happened, but what happened, and why it is still being hidden 45
years later. Colonel (later Brigadier General) Thomas J. Dubose
was the chief of staff of the Eighth Air Force, the parent unit
of the 509th Bomb Group, at Roswell in July 1947. He has
repeatedly, on audio and video tape, that the balloon explanation
was designed to "get the reporters of Ramey's back" (Brigadier
Roger Ramey, Commanding Officer of the Eighth Air Force). In
other words, one of the officers who was there has said that the
balloon explanation was nothing more than a cover story.
There is also Brigadier General Arthur Exon, who was later the
base commander at Wright-Patterson but who was a lieutenant
colonel at Wright Field in 1947. On audio tape, he has said that
many of the people at Wright field believe the debris recovered
near Roswell was extraterrestrial. He also described his own
flight over the crash site, telling us he saw the gouge created
when the craft crashed, as well as the tire marks of the military
vehicles that had driven over the field.
Here are two sources who seem to confirm much of the Roswell
tale. Both talk of aspects of the case about which they can
provide first hand testimony. There is much more about this that
must be explored. I believe the debris was extraterrestrial, but
in any event, it is clear that something more than a balloon was
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