From: detritus@ix.netcom.com   
      
   Don wrote:   
      
   > In article <4E161353.D7FC0919@ix.netcom.com>, detritus@ix.netcom.com   
   > (LV)says...   
   > You think that the glob you're standing on is the only   
   > game in town, that there's only one pie and the more   
   > humans there are, the smaller everyone's slice will   
   > be.   
   >   
   > Nonsense.   
   >   
   > There are quadrillions of tonnes of resources in just   
   > our own solar system.  The amount available in just   
   > our own galaxy is so huge there is probably no way   
   > to even estimate it.  And there are trillions of galaxies.   
   > But no - ecotards are content to sit crying in their   
   > beer (oops...make that recycled filtered piss) about   
   > how we're running out of everything.   
   >   
   > LV, I think you have too many science fiction novels.   
   > Let me know when the UFO's land.   
      
   Oh, yes, of course.   
      
   "It's too hard."  "It's impossible."  "It costs too much."   
   There are any number of excuses for not doing   
   something.  Much easier to sit on your ass and   
   wait for that little green check in the brown envelope   
   to show up in your mailbox.  I understand.  It's all   
   "science fiction."   
      
   Back in 1980, it was pure science fiction that   
   there would be a device which would enable one-   
   on-one telephone calls with real time video at   
   both ends, from any spot on the planet to any   
   other. Farfetched, eh?  Today - only thirty years   
   later - people nonchalantly carry this very capability   
   *in their pockets*, and think nothing of using it.   
   It's as easy as turning the tap in the sink, and   
   it's used with as little thought as that given to   
   where the water comes from.   
      
   The technology with which to mine the asteroid   
   belt has existed since the 1950s.  It's become   
   considerably refined since then, but it's still the   
   same technology.  Yes, it will be horrendously   
   expensive to begin with.  (Anyone remember   
   when blue LEDs first showed up?  If you wanted   
   one, it cost the better part of a hundred bucks.   
   Now, you can buy 'em for less than fifty cents.   
   Science fiction, right?)   
      
   "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to   
   go to the moon in this decade and do the   
   other things, not because they are easy,   
   but because they are hard, because that   
   goal will serve to organize and measure   
   the best of our energies and skills,   
   because that challenge is one that we are   
   willing to accept, one we are unwilling   
   to postpone, and one which we intend to   
   win, and the others, too. It is for these   
   reasons that I regard the decision last   
   year to shift our efforts in space from   
   low to high gear as among the most   
   important decisions that will be made   
   during my incumbency in the Office of   
   the Presidency." - JFK   
      
   Of course, the current Fucktard in Chief   
   doesn't care a rat's ass for space   
   development.   
      
   He's too busy stuffing down wings and   
   lobsters and shooting hoops to fuck with   
   any of that science fiction stuff. And folks   
   like you - scoffers - certainly won't help   
   get the job done.  If not the USA, then   
   certainly someone else.   
      
   The Chinese, for instance.   
      
   Your argument, if I infer it correctly, is that   
   it'll take too long or cost too much.   
      
   Bullshit.   
      
   That's the same crap the ecotards keep   
   spewing about drilling for oil in ANWR and   
   other places within the USA: "It'll take ten   
   years for any oil to come online." Yeah, it   
   will...and the ecotards have been throwing   
   wrenches in the gears for twenty years now,   
   and if we'd started drilling ANWR ten years   
   ago like we should have, we'd have that oil   
   NOW and we could begin to tell nasty shitwads   
   like Chavez to EAT their oil.   
      
   Waiting buys nothing.   
      
   Lord Valve   
   Futurist   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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