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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (24584)	2/1/2003 3:05:39 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57110

certainly not unexpected though

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (24584)	2/1/2003 3:31:09 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

Reminds you of the cheering crowds after 9/11, doesn't it? The loss of the Columbia and its crew is certainly sad. It makes me wonder again why we have manned spaceflight now. Sitting atop tens of thousands of pounds of high explosive is inherently dangerous. The unmanned probes do most of the real scientific work and could do almost all and put no lives at risk. And they are much cheaper. I know the answer, though: headlines. Publicity. Congresscritters. Budgets. Organizational size. Bureaucrat's jobs. Not a popular sentiment perhaps, but it should be pointed out that manned spaceflight is largely an expensive, dangerous publicity stunt at this point. If we have to rely on the sorts of propulsion systems available now to get us off this planet and moving out, we ain't gonna make it. And ultimately that will doom the species.