Randall: On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:38:03 -0800 Randall Clague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Space conspiracies are in. I was appalled that > the Apollo hoax meme > has gained sufficient ground that David > Livingston saw fit to ask you > about it on his show. (You were much nicer > than I would have been. > "It is easier and cheaper to go to the moon > than to fake millions of > artifacts and fool millions of people. Anyone > who believes the Apollo > program was a hoax either hasn't done his > homework or is incapable of > understanding the issues. In either case, they > have made themselves > irrelevant to a technological civilization, and > I ignore them. Next > question...?")
And it will only get worse. If it is not the conspiracy theorists, its the whiny "the moon and mars should be shared by everybody" complaints from the Europeans and other folks I met at the World Space Congress. Grr. No wonder the space field is at a near standstill. How about we move all the hard core space engineers to a nice island in the pacific, and start building and testing a reusable rocketship? I'll ask a couple of eccentric millionaires to foot the bill. (As soon as I find them :-). Then like in "Kings of the High Frontier" you suddenly start launching a space facility into orbit before the governments of the world know what hit them. > > >While I commend your "if you build it, they > will come" approach, we still need > >to figure out "what people will really shell > out money for" as opposed to > >"what people think is neato." > > Which requires something right-here-right-now > to sell to them. It's a > chicken and egg problem. But cash deposits > separate the men and women > from the boys and girls. > That reminds me, how do you make space exciting for girls and women? It is a very white male-dominated field. Space Tourism is one option. But that's just me. :-) Sam --"Wherever you go, there you are" _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
