Hi John, don't shoot the messenger - I agree with you - just pointing out that a lot of the justification for space investment is the escape route argument.
I agree with matt (wilmott) too - the LHC and the other fusion-focussed investments are scary. As the possibilities of destructive power grow - the need for better decision-making grows too. We can't settle all conflict and disagreement by war. (Picking up on the "Oppenheimer" reference - I'd recommend "The Physicists" - Die Physiker - by Friedrich Durrenmatt - I keep thinking the time for a new public production in English is nigh.) Ian On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:41 PM, John Carl<[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, right, an escape route from a perfectly fine, oxygen-rich place that > gave us life to some desiccated boulder floating in vacuum where all systems > would have to be perfectly engineered by a species that fouls its own nest. > > Don't hold your breath. > > Or rather, do. > > John > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Ian Glendinning > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Those things are connected Marsha. >> >> Space travel, piles of garbage and asteroids. If we don't learn to >> protect our current planet better soon - we may need an escape route. >> >> Regards >> Ian >> >> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 3:58 AM, MarshaV<[email protected]> wrote: >> > Greetings, >> > >> > >> > >> > What does it mean to say that not until Plato and Aristotle, did logos >> > become associated with rationalism? (I'm falling in love with >> Protagoras >> > and Gorgias.) After twenty-five hundred years of rationalism, we still >> send >> > our children to kill and mangle, and be killed and mangled. Where is >> the >> > advantage of being stuck in some pumped up, undeserved trust in logic? >> > Where's the quality? I've been listening to the public-relation >> campaign, >> > presently moving at full-throttle, pushing space exploration: should we >> go >> > to the moon, should we go straight to Mars, visit an asteroid, >> vacationland? >> > WTF? Who is kidding who, it will become Space Weapons Express. >> Meanwhile >> > the garbage heaps on this planet just get higher and higher. >> > >> > >> > >> > I'm so sick of it. >> > >> > >> > >> > Marsha >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _____________ >> > >> > >> > >> > "He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has." >> > (Friedrich von Schiller) >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Moq_Discuss mailing list >> > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> > Archives: >> > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ >> > >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ >> > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
