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#1 2004-08-21 09:41:16
- Palomar
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Re: Why Fear Won't Sell Space - (don't worry about China)
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-04x.html]Dr. Jeffrey F. Bell again
*Interesting article. He dubs himself a "recovering pro-space activist." 
"More recently it has become customary to trot out a new Yellow Peril from China.
Ex-Congressman Bob Walker has become notorious for this during his second career as a hired lobbyist for the US aerospace industry. At every opportunity during the past few years, he has promoted wildly exaggerated claims about the Chinese space program and its dire implications..."
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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#2 2004-08-21 11:05:15
- Martian Republic
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- Registered: 2004-06-13
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Re: Why Fear Won't Sell Space - (don't worry about China)
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-04x.html]Dr. Jeffrey F. Bell again
*Interesting article. He dubs himself a "recovering pro-space activist."
"More recently it has become customary to trot out a new Yellow Peril from China.
Ex-Congressman Bob Walker has become notorious for this during his second career as a hired lobbyist for the US aerospace industry. At every opportunity during the past few years, he has promoted wildly exaggerated claims about the Chinese space program and its dire implications..."
--Cindy
I'm not one for operating in fear. It a bad motivator to do anything positive.
I'm more in favor in selling the benifites of space exploration and why we should do it.
Larry,
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#3 2004-08-21 14:24:37
- Grypd
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Re: Why Fear Won't Sell Space - (don't worry about China)
It was fear that lead to the United States going to the Moon.
Kennedy and the US where sure that the USSR was ahead of them and that a lot of resources had to be used to get ahead and that was one of the motivators of the famous Moon speech. It was a challenge and that started the Moon race.
Of course the fact that the Moon if you stationed Nuclear missiles on would mean no one could use a surprise attack and expect to take out the opposition. Certainly this was of the opinion of the US air force who planned a nuclear missile base on the Moon. Also missiles fired from the moon would have all the advantages of the so called down the well attack.
But those where dark days and paranoia was institutional, it had not been that long since the end of the McCarthy era and the USA was scared at the continous visible advancement of the Communist threat. Then came sputnik and no one felt safe anymore.
Chan eil mi aig a bheil ùidh ann an gleidheadh an status quo; Tha mi airson cur às e.
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