Re: Lunacy from Brussels

> > The motives are wrong, but the goal is right. Interplanetary manned
> > flight is, IMO, the _only_ useful piece of science and engineering
> > being performed today.
>
> In what way is it useful ?

Because it's the only route for escaping the limitations of tens of
thousands of years of cultural baggage on this planet. There's room
enough out there - and the problems of day-to-day survival are pressing
enough - that clashing cultures need never see each other again. People
back on Earth can dig their heads into the dust and pretend the world
was created by a god in seven days, or whatever they please.

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