Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!cca!ima!haddock!stevel From: stevel@haddock.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Re: SPACE STATION ALERT -> Why space - (nf) Message-ID: <117@haddock.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 23:43:41 EST Article-I.D.: haddock.117 Posted: Thu Mar 15 23:43:41 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Mar-84 07:10:34 EST Lines: 24 #R:sri-arpa:-1743200:haddock:16000009:000:920 haddock!stevel Mar 15 11:40:00 1984 What bogus unthought out numbers. From: Robert Elton MaasI'd gladly pay my share of the station IN ADDITION to what's already being spent for space stuff ($150 million / 500,000,000 people = $.30 per capita), in fact I'd gldly pay three times that each year for the next five years if it would get the station built sooner. Try $1,500,000,000 dollars per year amoung (thinking non zero growth) 250,000,000 people. That makes $6.00 per year. Twice an order of magnitude in error. This kind of wrong numbers and lack of being able to look at the next year is what goverment/military planning is all about. Did you hear the report that of major military wepons procurment over the past 20 years only 25% were within budget. And some of that 25% had to cut back on quantities to do it. Steve Ludlum, decvax!yale-co!ima!stevel, {ucbvax|ihnp4}!cbosgd!ima!stevel