I really don't like putting controversial stuff in News. Thanks goodness Cynthia has provided us with Utah Astronomy... :-) http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-04zl.html Patrick
In a free society, citizens have the opportunity - the responsibility - to criticize their government and its agencies. I don't think that it is controversial to do so - it's democracy. Kim Hyatt Architect 1849 East 1300 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 801.631.5228 kimharch@msn.com<mailto:kimharch@msn.com> serius est quam cogitas ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Wiggins<mailto:paw@trilobyte.net> To: utah astronomy listserve<mailto:utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 12:29 AM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] X-43A Rockets Into Oblivion I really don't like putting controversial stuff in News. Thanks goodness Cynthia has provided us with Utah Astronomy... :-) http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-04zl.html<http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-04zl.html> Patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com<mailto:Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy<http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy> Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com<http://www.utahastronomy.com/>
From the op-ed:
"NASA might be better served by encouraging the development of more useful aerospace technologies that can be put to immediate use." I'm not sure I agree with this point-of-view. When ideas are getting kicked around, nobody may know what an 'immediate use' could be. Does it make an idea less interesting then? It's all a part of 'basic research' - research just to see if something works. It could lead to other research, or and 'immediate use' or nothing for decades. Then someone else may pick it up and make something of it. It's hard to know when the destination is going to be when these sort of journeys are started. Thanks for the link, Patrick. Scott --- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:
I really don't like putting controversial stuff in News. Thanks goodness Cynthia has provided us with Utah Astronomy... :-)
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-04zl.html
Patrick
Patrick, What's so controversial about that article? My first wife ruined more projects and wasted more money than NASA, and, in a shorter period of time. Maybe Ralph Cramden had it right. I mean think of it, had I met my first wife just a little earlier than I did, she would have been the first one on the Moon, saving NASA some serious bucks. "One of these day's Alice, POW!!! to the Moon!" ;) Just kidding... She was afraid of heigths. ;) Quoting Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net>:
I really don't like putting controversial stuff in News. Thanks goodness Cynthia has provided us with Utah Astronomy... :-)
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-04zl.html
Patrick
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