Re: A NASA-insider's announcement of Cassini launch

Andy Robert Steinberg (dracula@thecia.net)
Mon, 20 Oct 1997 19:23:42 -0400

"So Commander, after all you've just gone through, I have to ask you the same question
a lot of people back home are asking about Space these days. Is it worth it? Should we
just pull back, forget the whole thing as a bad idea, and take care of our own problems
at home?"

"No. We have to stay here, and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists
about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers.
But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred
years or a thousand years or a million years eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out.
When that happens it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao Tsu, and Einstein,
and Morabuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophones and all of us, all of us, was for nothing.
Unless we go to the Stars."

Commander Jeffrey Sinclaire, Space Station Babylon 5, "Infection"

Glenn Battin wrote:
>
> Varactacap wrote:
> SNIP
> > As for the Cassini thing. I'm looking real deep into this matter. I find it
> > facinating. The only way we'll ever get beyond this solar system is by
> > tapping into the energy locked in matter and anti-matter.
>
> BE HERE
> BE HERE NOW
> Make your own planet a better place to live.
> We (you too) will never leave this planet except on a spiritual plane.
> Do you really think NASA will find a better place (another habitable planet)
> and prepare spaceships for everyone who WANTS to go & Spend OUR $$$$
> to take you & THE others there.
>
> Wise up. BE HERE NOW! NASA should spend $$$$ developing inner-space
> ie: the oceans.
>
> Care for your planet....renewable-resources, no/minimal-pollution,
> human peaceful co-existence, education, human rights, healthcare .....
>
> What a concept!
> Be HERE now.
> Glenn
>
> --
> "Reckless words pierce like a sword,
> But the tongue of the wise brings healing."
> - Proverbs 12: 18

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