Bush's space plan

On Jan 9, 2004, at 4:38 PM, Ryan Z wrote:

> --- Ed Minchau wrote:
>> Furthermore, for tourism to succeed, it must make a
>> profit and be
>> done privately; NASA is ill-suited to the task (and
>> it is well
>> beyond NASA's mandate).
>>
>>

NASA provides significant support to the airline industry. Many of
their flights are filled with tourists.

The dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid because they weren't
space-faring. It's almost as if Gaia then thought "Well, dinosaurs
worked pretty well, but space-faring is necessary. Maybe I'll should
try mammals this time." Humanity is now developing systems to detect
and deflect asteroids, and could build orbital space colonies to spread
beyond Earth to insure life would survive a planetary catastrophe.

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

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