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Subject: SPACE Digest V13 #226
SPACE Digest Volume 13 : Issue 226
Today's Topics:
NASA Prediction Bulletins, Part 1
Re: Government vs. Commercial R&D
Re: the "face"
Re: Terraforming, ethics of human existance.
Re: URGENT: recent space trivia...Please help...
Re: chimps in space -- question
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From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!watyew!jdnicoll@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (James Davis Nicoll)
Subject: Re: Terraforming, ethics of human existance.
In article <4264@orbit.cts.com> schaper@pnet51.orb.mn.org (S Schaper) writes:
>
> Heidi,
> It sounds like you have a serious death wish. Get help.
S,
It sounds as though you confuse mental illness with
philosophical differences. Get help.
James Nicoll
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Date: 3 Mar 91 20:28:10 GMT
From: magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!jetson.uh.edu!acsls@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Eddie A. McCreary)
Subject: Re: URGENT: recent space trivia...Please help...
In article <9103030208.aa05304@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu>, rhutchin@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU writes:
> I figure many of you in the sci.space community follow the public policy
> end of things real closely, so I need a complete answer to the following.
> I am currently involved in a heated debate about the subject. As such, I
> won't tell you what side of the debate I'm on; I'll just pose the
> questions. Please reply by e-mail, I usually don't read this group.
>
> 1. Did Dan Quayle, who as VP chairs the National Space Council (right?),
> ever say something to the effect that Mars is a worthwhile goal becasue
> there is air and water there, and thus men could live there easily?
For about a year I had an article clipped from the Houston Chronicle
posted in my room on this (No flames please, despite their comments on
Usenet, they have better comics than the Post.) Apparently, the
Vice-President was a guest on a CNN broadcast. This was right after
President Bush announced his plan for a manned mission to Mars and
they asked Mr. Quayle why we should go to Mars. He reply was that
since we know that there are cannals on Mars, there must be water.
And since there must be water, there must be air and we could walk
around on the surface without any special gear. I'm sorry that I
don't have a more concrete reference but I packed up that article when
I moved and I am not really sure where it's at.
The scary part is, you're right, he is chairman of the National Space
Council...
> Thanks all,
> R. Hutchings
--
Eddie McCreary |`The time has come,' the Walrus said,
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