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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (135061)	5/31/2004 12:05:45 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>Before the Government and politics took over the industry it was practically free." Interesting point of view. What is your source for these statements?>> From news articles by optimists 55 years ago, the same ones who sid we would all commute by personal helicopters or have cars with wings. It was estimated the cost of energy could be dirt cheap- hahahaha The mistake was in assuming that government investments belonged to the public, or that the public should somehow profit by them. Instead of being an expected direct financial benefit to the public, atomic power led to further huge investments in military hardware, 30,000 muclear warheads and equipment to delivery them-Missiles and airplanes. And the Russians did the same. So the benefit to mankind was the creation of vast industries, jobs, teaching, employment of young minds, and the overwhelming power of the US military today. And we have profited ( although the Muslims seem to disagree) by remaining a Nation free from threats of invasion and free to seek out the incredible secrets of space , of DNA sequencies, and the composition of matter itself. A manned voyage to Mars ?. That requires atomic power Jules Verne, Arthur C Clark, Edison, Orson Wells, and Von Braun Their dreams are available to us if we dont screw up. As someone just said(Winn?) , we dont know the future So the job today is to save the present American system and economy because there are huge adventures and explorations ahead especially for the trained minds who are employed in increasing crop production, producing disease free plants, growing new body parts. Or producing clean fusion with a Tokomat. Will America let some wrong-minded Muslim deviants put an end to the dream. ? Never. And if only an injection of depleted uranium can stop them, thats what they will get. Sig