Re: Lunacy from Brussels

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:53:38 +0100, Pooh Bear wrote:
> Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:

>> If "we" weren't spending a trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000.00) a
>> year on machines that have no other purpose than to kill people, we
>> could have those moon hotels like in "2001", and probably an outpost on
>> Mars by now.
>
> I rather doubt it actually. The NASA budget in the Apollo days was way
> higher than it is now.
>
> Besides- what's the point of living on the moon ? Mars is too cold.
> Venus is too hot. No point in humans going there. Nothing worth seeing
> anyway.

OK, you can stay home in bed. You will never be _required_ to take a
trip to orbit. Some of us want to do more than just sit and watch TV
and eat junk food.

If you had a form, where you could answer the question:
"How would you rather your tax dollars be spent:
A: weapons of mass destruction, so that we can more effectively murder
more millions of people, or
B: Exploration, advancing the frontiers of Human Knowledge"

which would you pick?

And, make no mistake, the US has been stockpiling weapons of mass
destruction since they discovered the Atomic Bomb.

Thanks,
Rich

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