Re: Sickening Discussion

From: Dale (drc_at_oz.net)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:05:37 -0800

On 5 Jan 2005 03:40:15 -0800, qed100@hotmail.com wrote:

>The exploration of most of the stuff in the Universe *WILL* be done
>exclusively by way of telescopes mapping various bandwidths working
>from right here or very near Earth. There's no other way. So, for nearly
>all of the world astronauts aren't even an option.

Minor nitpick- this is at least the second time you've confused "universe"
with "world".

>THIS-IS-NOT-THE-STUFF-OF-LEGEND. The current crop of astronauts &
>cosmonauts are definitely not my heroes.

I'm not into hero worship, but read some of their bios. Pretty amazing
people. If I did have heroes, I wouldn't rule any of them out as candidates.

>But if you can't see the basic equivalence of the human spirit whether
>on the ground or riding the rocket, then I pity you.

I guess you don't remember when the whole world was briefly united in
awe and pride when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Pity humanity, I
guess...

Dale

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