Re: the un-economics of space travel

From: glbrad01 (glbrad01_at_insightbb.com)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:44:54 GMT

"Terrell Miller" <millerto@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:TvSOd.4431$R94.2127@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> Nathan Gant wrote:

(snip)

> this reminds me of the old chestnut that astronauts of a certain hue spout
> when they get back to Earth. You've heard it lots of times, I'm sure: "in
> space you can't see borders". Well, you can't see cholera or influenza or
> gamma radiation from space either, but that doesn't mean they're not there
> or that they are unimportant.
>

(snip)

> --
> Terrell Miller
> millerto@bellsouth.net
>
> "Every gardener knows nature's random cruelty"
> -Paul Simon RE: George Harrison

  Those all too hardy sovereign individualistic capitalist weeds always
voracious in their hunger to eat the communist's perfect lawn. If the
bureaucratic human state blinks or hiccups even momentarily in its all out
application of all energy and vigilance, all energy without exception to
babysitting that perfectly entropic lawn of the living dead, both are done
for. It takes infinitely many eyes to see everything and everywhere all at
once, and it takes infinitely many strings for the communist state to
animate and maximally control infinitely many puppets (down to the last atom
and last order of magnitude subatomic cog). If it misses even once, if it
missteps or misjudges even once anywhere at all, there is a crack in Utopia
and all is done for.

Brad

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