The fusion vs. SPS battle

--- In ssi_list@... "Xenophile"
>
> > If fusion funding was canceled today, what do you thing the
> > likelihood is of one penny of that going into SPS?
>
> Slim and None, and I just saw Slim packing his bags.
>
> In other words, about the same as the chance that, if space
programs
> were canceled today, that money would solve all the world's
problems.

NOT!
But tell that to the great(brainwashed-unwashed)masses!
It's like asking a peon at the time of Christopher Columbus why
spending good gold for 3 ships to look for a better route to Cathay.
The stock reply was. EVERYONE KNOWS that the worlds flat and you'll
sail off the edge.

SIGH!