The President's Space Initiative Speech

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
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Do YOU want to pay for it? How about privatizing all the airports to pay
for it? A $5 gallon tax on fuel? There really is no upside to doing
this.
We are already overspending at a rate that is unsustainable.

Actually, we've been spending that way for over 70 years; this is just the
logical culmination of statism and the welfare state.

In article . net, "Mike
Rapoport" writes:


Agreed. Unmanned space programs accomplish much more at a fraction of the
cost.

And they fail to accomplish the one really important thing, to find and stretch
the limits of mankind, no matter how much we put into them.

Besides, the trip to Mars is already paid for.

The benefits we have already received from better weather forcasting and
communications alone put us in debt to NASA for a couple of trillion so far.
How much is GPS worth over the next 50 years?

Manned flight is really just a perk they have more than earned for the benefits
that have accrued to us through serendipity from earlier Buck Rogers stuff.

Don

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Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG