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Re: Some great Space info and dicussion
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:07:01 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Leonard Hoffman writes:
> > Physics don't tell us that we ought to not experiment, but they do give us a
> > basic guideline of what is or is not feasible, and most expedient for the
> > purposes of conducting warfare in space.
> > War, exploration, and all other fields of creative human endeavor will
> > always be helped or hindered by the economic and political realities of the
> > day, not exclusively creativity. Hell, since the '60s, we've had the
> > technology to easily reach Saturn or Mars, or even launch an interstellar
> > probe. However, politics and the feelings and outcrying of the liberal left
> > have for the past few decades crushed any dreams of any such things.
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> being politically left, i have need to defend my colleages. For example, what
> reason do we have to explore mars or saturn when billions continue to be
> oppressed and starved here on earth?
Waaaaaitasecond. A lot of us who are politically to the left
are in fact extremely supportive of interplanetary travel--because
we consider ourselves "progressives," and what could be more pro-
gressive than pushing the frontiers of humanity outwards? Nothing
would make us feel more stagnant as a society and a culture than
confining ourselves willingly to the Earth.
> i am reminded of the novel _Red Mars_ by some really good author, wherein
> during the colonization of Mars, the politically and economically oppressed on
> Earth rise up in quasi-rebellion and riots.
That may be true--or else it may give people something to dream
about, something to create new heroic myths around. I tend to
think that the entire concept of a frontier is a unifying one,
and heaven knows we need some unifying forces these days.
best
LFB
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| (...) Yes, I would think liberals would support things like SETI and future space missions, since truly conservatives would argue that there is nothing out there to waste so much money on (especially when such money could go to military spending). (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| <snip> (...) the problem with this line of thinking is that it assumes future travel will be based acceleration and deceleration in normal space. simply traveling at light speed has a whole bunch of problems associated with it, which is why most (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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