Re: starship-design: Grumpy Old Men: The Future Ain't What It Used To Be (Sequel to come)

[KellySt@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/22/03 7:11:26 AM, zkulpa@ippt.gov.pl writes:

>> From owner-starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu Mon Sep 22 03:40:18 2003
>> From: KellySt@aol.com
>> 
>> In a message dated 9/19/03 5:53:01 AM, zkulpa@ippt.gov.pl writes:
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>> >Can't be more in agreement. Add also the way of thinking/acting I call
>> >the "Black single mothers" syndrome. Space (science, whatever) is an
>> >extravagance, they say, first we must take care of the poor Black 
>> >single mothers (or unemployed coal miners, poor drug addicts, whatever).
>> >So they cajole or force taxpayers to fund a giant care system for them.
>> >
>> >And they succeed spectacularly - the number of Black single mothers
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>> >is dynamically and steadily growing. And so is, of course, the number
>> >(and pay) of bureaucrats managing the system...
>> 
>> An economist would say that was obvious. Pay money for something 
>> and you get more of it. If unwed motherhood becomes a automtic 
>> qualkification to get a long term welfare support -- 
>> you get more girls deciding to go that route.
>> 
>Exactly. But who listens to economists in the Congress nowadays?

Thats just so un-PC.

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>> >> These arn't issues that space will solve, and NASA has done 
>> >> its best to prove space is impossibly inacccessable for any use. 
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>> >> Private groups proving the later is wrong might surprize folks 
>> >> enough to rethink their fatalism -- but its not real likely.
>> >> 
>> >But what other hope remains?
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>> Comercial of some scale is the only possible hope.  
>> no gov program will ever help.  Thats not what govs do.
>> 
>Exactly. So please do not write "it's not really likely",
>as it only spreads and strenghtens the fatalism...

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>-- Zenon Kulpa