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Re: (meteorobs) Perspective
By the way, what is the government of India
doing to help the poor, the starving, the sick?
I cannot recall many articles discussing their
outpouring of help to the masses.
can anyone point me to an article, or link, that
will substantiate India's own governmental outpouring
of help to their starving and poor and sick?
chuck ferriday
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ferry Octavian" <Ferry.Octavian.bp@ptsidot siemens.co.id>
To: <meteorobs@atmob.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:38 PM
Subject: 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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