Re: OT: A bit of a long shot, but


"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:02:08 -0700, "J.A. Legris"
<jalegris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 30, 1:49 pm, John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:59:07 +0200, martin griffith

<mart_in_medina@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Nice pic here, of the ISS white elephant

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070628.html

and it was taken from the ground

martin

I wonder how many hundred billion dollars more, and how many more
lives, we will lose before we abandon that idiotic idea. Return on
investment so far has been zero.

John

The starry-eyed optimist's view. We pessimists see it as one of the
few things worth doing.

Why worth doing? Nothing is happening in the ISS except trying to
maintain the ISS. It's proven how dangerous and difficult it is to
keep humans alive in space. That's all. It is not a bridge to
anywhere, much less to the stars.

"The shuttle was built to service the space station, and the space
station was built as a place for the shuttles to go."

The unmanned stuff - Pluto orbiters, comet missions, Mars rovers, have
been spectacular.

John

IIRC, the argument has been made that the "people" won't support just Robots
in Space. That it takes People up there doing stuff to keep the General
Populace, not the Tech Crowd, behind the Space Program.

<shrug>

Don't know.

Robert


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