At 07:53 PM 4/24/02 -0500, Steve S wrote:
>Sean Kane wrote:
>
> > Hey Steve Sloan, Is this guy for real?
> >
> > http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2002-04/24/11.00.books
> >
> > Basically, a candidate for congress from Alabama wants a
> > 1% tax on pretty much anything scifi/space related (books,
> > comics, games, toys, etc.) to fund NASA...I wonder how
> > much he reads himself?
>
>I've never heard of the guy, although I'm not surprised.
>Thanks to Marshall Space Flight Center and Redstone Arsenal,
>north Alabama is an island of well-educated SF readers and
>space fans in the middle of a sea of fundies. :-)
I spent some time on that island too, but it was called Oak Ridge, TN. :-)
(though in fact did have a couple trips to Huntsville back in the dark ages...)
>The idea isn't bad, since who generally wants to see better
>space fundings than SF and sci-fi fans? It's nice to live in
>the one part of the state where pandering to the people means
>more funding for NASA, instead of posting the Ten Commandments
>in courtrooms and spewing stupid homophobic crap for the TV
>cameras.
I suppose it's not an all bad idea. I just see some interesting arguments
at the movies ("I want my S/F surcharge to go to building webslingers, not
rocketships!"). I wonder how many die hard scifi types already contribute
to space organizations?
Sean
