Digest 715 - Population Control Policy Issues

On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 03:16 AM, avatar643 wrote:

> Your right about sterilization
> setting off political correctness warning bells, too. (Not that I
> personally practice political correctness, but I can certainly hear
> the objections already).

I think its a bit more than political correctness. If you want to
sterilize yourself go ahead. If you try to sterilize me, expect a
fight.

The International Space Station (ISS) most important legacy may be
jump-starting space tourism. Consider: the first space tourist, Dennis
Tito, was supposed to go to the Soviet era Mir space station. Under
pressure from NASA, Russia de-orbited the Mir which resulted in Mr.
Tito going to the ISS instead. Now the Mir was old, smelly, crowded and
probably not all that nice. The ISS was brand new, shinny, much more
roomy, etc. Mr. Tito came back to Earth with glowing accounts of how
great space is. Would his experience have been as good on Mir?

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

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