Re: Nation-Building Mars vs Afghanistan and Iraq

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:06:18 GMT

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:53:00 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
echomko_at_@polaris.umuc.edu (Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

>I couldn't agree with you more. But until the economic return on
>rebuilding a backward country is less than the philosophical return of
>going to another planet, we are likely to be stuck with the status quo.
>
>And THAT is the root of why I am skeptical about Bush's space inititive.

Eric, we all know the only reason that you're skeptical about it is
because it's Bush's. Had it been made by a Democrat, you'd be
praising it to the rooftops.

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