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Subject: Space Station opposition
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Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 17:03:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 12 17:03:45 1984
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From:  Chris Heiny 

Since 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.