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Re: No news is good news (re: It's awfully quiet in here)
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lugnet.space
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Sat, 27 Sep 2003 18:18:09 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Kyle Keppler wrote:
> In lugnet.space, Jon Palmer wrote:
> > In lugnet.space, Paul Baulch wrote:
> > > In lugnet.space, Aaron Sneary wrote:
> > > Are you crazy? A third nation becomes capable of independently sending
> > > people into space, and that's {bad news}? It's [{great news}]!!!
> > >
> > > SPACE!
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> >
> > I'm with Paul to the core on this one. China going into space (or ANY humans
> > going) is a beautiful beautiful thing.
> >
> > [ j o n ]
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> Werd. Sometimes people associate bad connotations with communist countries...
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> --Kyle
> <http://lego.kepplah.com>
Indeed. Unfortunately, they have one thing
we don't have--the ability to exert singularity
of purpose in spite of prevailing public opinion.
That's often pretty reprehensible, but it does
allow the state to marshal resources and shrug off
setbacks that allow amazing leaps forward to be
made (again, not always true, viz. the Great Leap
Forward...).
Unfortunately this has been the greatest danger of
over-privatization in the West--it tends not to
make those investments in science and infrastructure,
because those things don't pay directly in the short
term. This is why they're putting up a bullet train
in eastern China, but we can't get it together to
have a decent intercity ground-transit network because
we can't condemn the land, build the track, and keep
it up.
But hey, at least we have the freedom to talk about
it, so that's something at least. I agree with the
feeling that Chinese spacefaring could very well send
US planetary science back into a golden age, and for
the sake of humanity's future I hope that's true.
best
LFB
(Who's off to play Homeworld2 right now...heh.)
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