Re: Musings on Nasa and the Concept of Truth.

From: John Wilkins (john_SPAM_at_wilkins.id.au)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:16:17 +1000

Paul Lawler <stargazer@kilolaniDOT.net> wrote:

> "John Wilkins" <john_SPAM@wilkins.id.au> wrote in message
> news:1gi1znw.18dhn2e1wr4rxoN%john_SPAM@wilkins.id.au...
> > DrPostman <Looky@mysig.foremail> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 21:33:54 -0400, "Jonathan" <anon@earthlink.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >The idea of controlling and managing so carefully the first
> > > >discovery of extraterrestrial life shows us the most harmful
> ignorance
> > > >plaguing the human race.
> > >
> > > Finding life beyond our Earth would be the biggest way to increase
> > > the budget and promote further space flights. NASA would LOVE
> > > to prove life beyond the Earth.
> > >
> > And yet they don't invent it. Another way to put this is that were there
> > life elsewhere in the solar system, it would in fact *justify*
> > expenditure to investigate it.
>
> Wow! What a premise! You should write a novel!
>
> Oh, wait... never mind. Dan Brown already wrote "Deception Point."

This is the Da Vinci Code guy? Umberto Eco Lite? I don't think I'd
bother... 

-- 
John Wilkins
john_SPAM@wilkins.id.au   http://wilkins.id.au
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                                               - Francis Bacon
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