From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 10:26:13 MST
I think exploring space is a great idea, what I don't like is the Space
Shuttle masquerading as exploration. The Shuttle only went about 200 miles
away to a place visited many times before where they did science projects
for grade school kids. And the damn thing cost 400 million each time it flew
even when it didn't crash and kill people.
At the other end of the spectrum brilliant science was done by the
Wilkinson Microwave Anistrophy Probe, it discovered all sorts of interesting
things, like the universe is 13.7 billion years old with a error of only one
percent and the astonishing fact that 96% of the universe is made of stuff
we know nothing about. This gold mine of information cost just $145 million
and risked no lives.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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