Re: Space Access Update #112 9/19/05

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:40:47 -0400, in a place far, far away, Josh
Hill <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

>>>>Oh come now, Josh: there's the alternative of no program
>>>>at all. Not spending money on idiocy is a *good* thing.
>>>
>>>
>>> There is that. But I prefer to think positively . . .
>>
>>It's called 'denial', and it's not really something you
>>should prefer.
>
>It's a matter of priorities. I'd rather the government wasted money on
>suboptimal space programs than on $250 million bridges to uninhabited
>islands in Alaska.

Even when those suboptimal space programs perpetuate myths about the
high cost and difficulty of space that makes it more difficult to find
investment for it that might reduce the costs?
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