Earth-Moon Network = Maturing Space Industries

At 09:24 AM 9/4/02 -0700, you wrote:
>On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 11:01 AM, Jack Reynolds wrote:
>
> > Ideas that can reasonably argue financial profitability are the only
> > ideas
> > that really count right now.
>
>This is contradicted by the fact that the ideas behind Islamic
>Fundamentalism can attract large committed followings, including very
>rich, educated people like Osama bin Laden, will to give up riches and
>even their lives. Too bad the ideas are so bad ...

Perhaps if we all lived in the sort of rank and squalor that such
fundamentalism is born in, this point would be (more?) valid. Bust since we
live in 1st world standard with 1st world economic realities, the point (to
me, at least) is moot.

Jack