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To: Edscharp who wrote (21)	1/13/2004 2:10:58 PM
From: Fangorn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41

Ed, re> If proponents of NASA can effectively make the case that their value outweighs those costs then perhaps they can make an effective case for increasing NASA's budget.< Go back to that post that had links to the spinoffs from Apollo and the shuttle and think about it. Your lack of imagination is showing again. How much revenue does the federal government derive from cable TV? No satellites = no cable. How much from the use of computers? MRIs? Now add in the non financial benefits to consumers. Entertainment, improved health, better weather forcasts, better running shoes,... My God, man, just think a little. re >making the case in hard numbers< Survival is the bottom line. Given the near certainty that Earth will be hit by a city killer in the next century, a civilization killer in the next hundred thousand years, and a dinosaur class killer in the next several million, I'd say that those numbers are not only hard but downright indestructable. That old line keeps running through my head when reading your posts. "Penny wise, pound foolish."