Re: RE: starship-design: The Way ahead & Bugs

[KellySt@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/19/98 1:22:13 PM, lparker@cacaphony.net wrote:

>> >cost and complexity, when you can just send colonists on a
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>> I completely disagree.
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>> how do you sell this to the media?
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>Without agreeing or disagreeing, the media, and therefore the public can be
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>sold almost anything. The scandal over Clinton is proof enough of that.

Bull shit!  Its virtually impossible to sell the public anything.  The one
part of human psycology that if very well researched is sales.  Rule one.  You
can't sell the public what you want, you can only try to tell them that what
you want to sell will get them something they want.



>> You need the vast majority of the public to support you, you'r eprobably
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>> the reason their taxes are now 30% higher.
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>Lee

Kelly