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RE: (meteorobs) Perspective

I couldn't say it better myself. Lets think far ahead... Maybe not for us in the near future, but for our future children or grands maybe... So I think its not fair to compare the programme with those things... Lets help humanity - starvation, wars etc in other ways - we must and can do that in thousands other ways, but the scientific programme like the space shuttle do have to go on...

Regards,
Octavian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Boudreaux [mailto:chuckbou@atvcidot net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 05:21
> To: meteorobs@atmob.org
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Perspective
> 
> 
> Mike,
> 
> While I understand your concerns and know you write and speak 
> with great 
> sincerity, it is often easy to try and bring complex issues 
> to simple terms 
> such as this. Lost in the simplification are some very 
> important facts. 
> Study after study over the past four decades have shown the 
> cost-to-benefit 
> ratio for space spending provides the greatest tangible 
> benefit to mankind 
> of ANY US program. For just a glimpse of what the Shuttle 
> program alone has 
> done, check out 
> http://www.fas.org/news/usa/2000/usa-> 001012.htm. And that 
> 
> does not include the major scientific 
> advances likely to come from the hard 
> work of the crew of STS-107. Or the advances from the Gemini, 
> Mercury and 
> Apollo programs. Also lost in the news are the hundreds of 
> thousands of 
> lives saved over the past forty years, thanks to the money 
> spent to push 
> man beyond what he thought was his limits. In the end that is 
> what the 
> space program has done. And 17 courageous and dedicated people have 
> willingly given their lives to make that possible.
> 
> Chuck Boudreaux
> 
> At 09:08 PM 02/04/2003, you wrote:
> 
> >While clearing my mailbox of this deluge of messages on the shuttle
> >tragedy, it occured to me how little news is accorded to the 
> 1000's of 
> >people who die of starvation in Africa and to the 500,000 or 
> more who die 
> >of cancer in the US every year... Now where should we be 
> spending the 
> >billions of dollars it will cost to figure out a more 
> reliable spaceship?
> >
> >Mike Linnolt
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