From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 29 2003 - 21:17:16 MST
--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
>
> Oh, now this is interesting. Only in Europe would one
> get "The Green Paper on European Space Policy".
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99993308
>
> Interestingly it points out how Europeans are only
> spending $15/head on space while the U.S. is spending
> $110/head. (I can understand this -- if one is spending
> more to subsidize farmers to produce "green" farm products
> then one can't really expect there to be funds available
> for space exploration.)
I'd have to highly dispute the claim that we spend that much on space.
That comes to $32 billion for space? I doubt we are even spending half
that much. I'll bet they are lumping together all of NASA's budget (a
large chunk of which is aeronautical and other non-space research), all
military and espionage expenditures on satellites and launcher
development (none of which does anything for space exploration or
colonization), plus things like the Smithsonians Air and Space Museum
and public subsidies for university courses oriented toward aerospace
disciplines, and public support for astronomy via the university system.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.
http://mailplus.yahoo.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sun Feb 02 2003 - 21:26:03 MST