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Subject: Re: Space

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RobDog Bastard

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Date Posted: 15:59:48 02/06/04 Fri
In reply to: Ray 's message, "Re: Space" on 01:48:18 02/06/04 Fri

Gee-whiz Ray - I was only asking a question. No need for the reaming. Actually, I think you are the short-sighted one, my friend. Lunar tourism is not gonna happen. Maybe a few ultra-rich adventure hounds like those guys who paid to become cosmonauts in Russia, but on a wide scale - not in our lifetime, friend.

I do, however, agree with you about the capacity for such a mission to increase the scope of our technology base and help us inch away from the rest of the world in the arena of proprietary knowledge. These things will, in turn, create new consumer items with neat smells, sounds and sensations that we will all decide we "need" in 20 years.

The sad thing is that our lives as humans have been reduced to that. We need new stuff, and we're willing to go that far to get it.

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