Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Heiny.henr@parc-max.arpa From: Heiny.henr@parc-max.arpa Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Space Station opposition Message-ID: <17475@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 17:03:45 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17475 Posted: Mon Mar 12 17:03:45 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Mar-84 09:31:42 EST Lines: 33 From: Chris HeinySince I don't have an electronic copy of your reply to clydes' reply, I'll simply list my replies (how recursive...) by index. 1. Name 5 new unmanned interplanetary probes scheduled for the 1980-1990. How many were launched in the latter 70's? Is this doing 'just fine'? How much ore has been refined by unmanned probes? How much medicine? How can an unmanned probe do long term investigation of weightlessness on humans? 2. It depends on where the money comes from. It could also slow the arms race. Building and launching your unmanned probes in orbit would significantly reduce their cost: the launch would be less of a shock, and require less energy. If the probe could be built with space aquired materials, it would be even cheaper. Name two from each category who oppose it. Who is behind it (I don't think it's the Illuminati). 3. I can't argue with your point about the Reagan admin, but look at it this way: should we have ignored German rocket technology in the 40's and 50's because it was used militarily or had potential military use? By the time the station is built, the Reagan admin will no longer be in power. 4. The US now longer operates on a free enterprise system. Social control (but no ownership) of most major industries is not an incentive for private ventures. Could you afford this with the government sucking up 40% of the economy? The market for thin wafers of silicon wasn't very good in 1955, either. Chaotically Yours, Chris Heiny Xerox Corp, Rochester N.Y.