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From: stevel@haddock.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: SPACE STATION ALERT -> Why space - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 23:43:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 15 23:43:41 1984
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haddock!stevel    Mar 15 11:40:00 1984

What bogus unthought out numbers.

	From:  Robert Elton Maas 

        I'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