Don Davis article

MINE! MINE! MINE!

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, jwsmith42000@... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 3/23/2006 3:51:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> dondavis@... writes:
>
> > I would rather have spent the money on Lunar and Mars
expeditions at that
> > critical time when we had the opportunity, and later on space
colonies, than
> > on the Vietnam war. We would have gotten a lot more for our money
in the
> > long term. Even now a NASA budget is burned up roughly every month
in Iraq. We
> > can afford to reach beyond Earth, it is all a matter of priorities.
> >
> > Don
>
> I would have rather kept my money in my pocket.
> Space research and exploration is not a proper Earth government
function. The
> only proper application of space technology by an Earth based
government is
> for the defense of the Earth Land Mass that the government in
question is