>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David M Harland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 12:25 PM
>Subject: Re: More jolly Space Station news
>
>
>>
>>  >It's an expensive albatross, if there ever was one.
>>
>>  I disagree, the problem is its functionality has been pared back to
>>  much, it needs to be expanded!
>
>Hogwash.  Its real cost was always ridiculously disproportionate to the size
>of the scientific benefits it would supposedly produce -- that, after all,
>is why NASA had to deliberately understate its cost by a factor of 5 to 10
>to get Congress and Reagan to approve it in the first place.

Come on now, Bruce. Don't speak so elliptically, tell us what you really think!





dmh
==
You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/

Reply via email to