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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Justification for the Space Program
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.193747.5715@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec28.193940.10495@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec28.223226.12849@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <93002.204240SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:37:47 GMT
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- In <93002.204240SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
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- >A functioning economy (a whole one - heavy manufacturing, food growing,
- >service sector, the whole nine yards) on the Moon is in a what military
- >position with respect to the earth?
-
- A damned fragile one. If access is suffiently easy to allow the
- development of such an economy, tossing bombs at it will also be
- sufficiently easy -- and cracking your house open on the Moon, unlike
- doing it on Earth, will KILL you.
-
- >Sounds like a justification to me....
-
- Not hardly, Heinlein stories implying otherwise notwithstanding.
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- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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