Reggie Bautista wrote:
The Martian Way? Never heard of it. Any idea if it's
available in any of the copious numbers of Asimov anthologies
out there?
According to the Internet SF Database site:
http://isfdb.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/pw.cgi?6e2806
It's been published in these books/magazines:
1.
Julia wrote:
Anyone feel they were heavily influenced by Asimov's short story The
Martian Way?
I say this as a long-time Asimov fan.
The Martian Way? Never heard of it. Any idea if it's available in any of
the copious numbers of Asimov anthologies out there?
Reggie Bautista
Trent Shipley asked:
What will be the tangible benefits from a manned mission to Mars?
This is going to sound awfully pie-in-the-sky because, well, because it is,
at least a little :-)
We have to get off this planet. We don't know when we might next be hit by
an asteroid like the one that
At 02:15 PM 1/18/04, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Julia wrote:
Anyone feel they were heavily influenced by Asimov's short story The
Martian Way?
I say this as a long-time Asimov fan.
The Martian Way? Never heard of it. Any idea if it's available in any of
the copious numbers of Asimov anthologies
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trent Shipley asked:
What will be the tangible benefits from a manned mission to Mars?
This is going to sound awfully pie-in-the-sky because, well, because it
is,
at least a little :-)
We have to get off this planet. We don't know when we might
At 06:32 PM 1/15/04, Trent Shipley wrote:
On Thursday 2004-01-15 16:28, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
spaceship is the Crew Exploration Vehicle? How inspiring!
Less inspiring than, frex, Lunar Module?
The name doesn't even make sense.
Who cares?
Will the task of the vehicle be to explore the
At 10:17 PM 1/15/04, Trent Shipley wrote:
On Thursday 2004-01-15 20:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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_That's_ what's inspiring about it.
Who cares if its inspiring?
Look I was raised to be a liberal.
I feel that we should fund medicaide and take care of poor
sick folk. (Heck,
When the administration announces grand plans for manned space programs i
FEEL
proud, excited, and--yes--even inspired.
And that feeling immediately makes me suspicious. Is this fiscally
responsible? Is it rational? I think, no, I *KNOW* that basing public
policy on emotion IS
On Friday 2004-01-16 02:32, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 10:17 PM 1/15/04, Trent Shipley wrote:
On Thursday 2004-01-15 20:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Um. I thought I was pretty clear. I HAVE given up on the social
programs.
Let me make sure I understand you correctly. You have given up on
At 04:21 AM 1/16/04, Trent Shipley wrote:
On Friday 2004-01-16 02:32, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 10:17 PM 1/15/04, Trent Shipley wrote:
On Thursday 2004-01-15 20:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Um. I thought I was pretty clear. I HAVE given up on the social
programs.
Let me make sure I
No. I have given up on social programs and think
the government should spend
little or no money on them. I think that if someone
with no money shows up
in an emergency room they should get no treatment
even if this means that the
person dies.
Wow. So if I get into a car accident,
The problem with space travel is money. The cost of reaching low
earth orbit from the surface of the earth needs to drop by a factor
of 20 or more.
At the moment, space flight is expensive and has few users:
* the military: long range artillery, espionage, weather forecasting,
Nope. If you are insolvent you should not be treated.
Open access to emergency medicine is the back door is basically a disguised
form of socialized medicine. It forces solvent people to take on your
charity case whether they want to or not.
On Friday 2004-01-16 07:03, Damon Agretto
--- Trent Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope. If you are insolvent you should not be
treated.
Open access to emergency medicine is the back door
is basically a disguised
form of socialized medicine. It forces solvent
people to take on your
charity case whether they want to or
On Friday 2004-01-16 13:16, Damon Agretto wrote:
--- Trent Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope. If you are insolvent you should not be
treated.
Open access to emergency medicine is the back door
is basically a disguised
form of socialized medicine. It forces solvent
people to
At 02:49 PM 1/16/04, Trent Shipley wrote:
On Friday 2004-01-16 13:16, Damon Agretto wrote:
--- Trent Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope. If you are insolvent you should not be
treated.
Open access to emergency medicine is the back door
is basically a disguised
form of socialized
Ronn! wrote:
Why do you believe that being a taxpayer -- by which I am presuming you
mean having an income, owning property, etc., so that you are subject to
taxation -- is simply a matter of luck?
Well isn't it at least partly due to luck? If I was born to a crack Mom,
I'd say that the
At 01:49 PM 1/16/2004 -0700 Trent Shipley wrote:
I can think of only a few objective reasons why the commonwealth should
provide subsidies to ne'er do wells like myself.
What a Nietschian hell
The answer, of course, is that every human life is precious... and indeed,
in your ow terms, every
At 04:09 PM 1/16/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote:
Well isn't it at least partly due to luck? If I was born to a crack Mom,
I'd say that the cards had been stacked against me, wouldn't you. Now we
do live in a society that allows for the possibility that anyone can
overcome their bad luck, but
On Friday 2004-01-16 18:30, John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 01:49 PM 1/16/2004 -0700 Trent Shipley wrote:
I can think of only a few objective reasons why the commonwealth should
provide subsidies to ne'er do wells like myself.
What a Nietschian hell
Exactly! Libertarian paradise, Social
Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snipping nearly all
As for inexpensive earth to orbit travel: there are
two obvious ways to achieve this:
* A nuclear thermal rocketThe problem with
nuclear thermal rockets is two fold. Firstly,
the current designs always put some
Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trent Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope. If you are insolvent you should not be
treated.
Open access to emergency medicine is the back door
is basically a disguised
form of socialized medicine. It forces solvent
people to take on
On Thursday 2004-01-15 16:28, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
spaceship is the Crew Exploration Vehicle? How inspiring!
Less inspiring than, frex, Lunar Module?
The name doesn't even make sense.
Who cares?
Will the task of the vehicle be to explore the crew?
No. Its task will be to LAND
- Original Message -
From: Trent Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:32 PM
Subject: Martian Emotion (was Easterbrook on Bush's NASA plan)
In brute, lowest common denominatior terms what is in this
gold-plated fools
Snip
_That's_ what's inspiring about it.
Who cares if its inspiring?
Look I was raised to be a liberal.
I feel that we should fund medicaide and take care of poor
sick folk. (Heck,
I am poor with chronic illnesses and would *benefit* from socialized
medicine.)
I feel that we
On Thursday 2004-01-15 20:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Snip
_That's_ what's inspiring about it.
Who cares if its inspiring?
Look I was raised to be a liberal.
I feel that we should fund medicaide and take care of poor
sick folk. (Heck,
I am poor with chronic illnesses and
Robert Seeberger wrote:
A mission to a nickle-iron asteroid that would mean an eventual return
for investment just aint sexy. I can think of one other listmember
who, like me, might pop a boner at the thought of asteroid mining, but
I doubt anyone else here would get excited, or in any other
- Original Message -
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: Martian Emotion (was Easterbrook on Bush's NASA plan)
Robert Seeberger wrote:
A mission to a nickle-iron asteroid that would
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