Jumping the Gun.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Ravenart@a... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 3/23/04 10:29:34 PM, dante.feditech@n... writes:
>
> << In any case this is all old news, and was forecast in New
Scientist and
> Scientific American years ago. Maybe they just downloaded it off
the internet
> and slapped a pentagon logo on the front. Wouldn't be the first
time something
> like that has happened.
>
> ANTIcarrot. >>
>
> That's true. When I was a teen in Virginia Beach in 1986, there
was a news
> on tv about a explosing toliet in which a wife kill a cockroach
and dump it
> into the toliet and then to make sure it's REALLY dead, spray the
entire can at
> it. Later, when the husband sat on it, he lit a ciggrate and it
explose the
> gas. That was actually fake but it was carried on the news
because the
> reporter want to believe it was true. When it proved to be fake,
there were a lot
> of red faces around. 10 years later, yet another newscaster
reported that as
> "news"! Some thng just never died, they become zombie news.
>

How about the $1 trillion pricetag that keeps appearing for the moon
and mars missions? Same thing, some reporter made up the number by
using NASA's grandest vision for Bush Sr.'s space plan, counting the
moon base twice, then adding $200 billion. Yet this totally
erroneous number keeps appearing as the cost of a manned mission to
mars alone...

Ed