TGD(ver 1.0) Waste of Time

Eventually those things "trickle down" (sounds like a good expression to use what with the supply siders returning to the White House) to us. Like, GPS. You could have a personal x-ray laser one day. After all, you have the constutional right to keep and bear arms!

I don't like Star Wars, but, hey, if it is the only way to get the mondo launch vechiles we need built, why not? Who cares if we bankrupt the national economy doing it... at least we could have some fun on the way!

Mark

On Mon, 02 April 2001, Ian Woollard wrote:

>
> the_doctor@... wrote:
>
> The space program needs some "evil empire" (like Ronald Reagan put
> > it)
> to come on scene so we can spend $ billions on more cool toys!
>
> Nah. All the cool stuff gets classified and we don't get to play with
> it. Apart from the dissolution of a major super power(!) what cool
> stuff really came of the last Star Wars project?
>
> Nothing. Atleast nothing that we know of...
>
> My case in point.
>
> ;-)
>
> Now an ECONOMIC arms race. That would be cool.
>
> > Mark
>
> --
> - Ian Woollard (ian.woollard@...)
>
> "Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological
> civilization?"
> - Gerard O'Neill
>

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