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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: SPACE STATION ALERT
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Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 20:14:01 EST
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Dave Lukes observes, in part:

   But seriously, folks, there ARE a lot more useful ways of spending
   that much money.
   Earth has enough problems: why not solve them before making new ones in space?

Why not do both?  They are in no way mutually exclusive.  The money
being spent on space is a drop in the bucket compared to what's already
being spent on the problems of Earth; neither eliminating the space
effort entirely nor beefing it up considerably will have any noticeable
financial effect.

King Ferdinand of Spain (Queen Isabella's husband) had a lot of problems.
Nobody remembers them today.  We do remember something else.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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