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shimiqua
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http://www.savespace.us/

If you believe that the future of the U.S. space program is important to our national security, technology development, and economic future, please take a minute and drop a line to our president to express your concern regarding the lack of interest in the space program that our current administration is showing…


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nope, guess no one does.
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I always liked it. But it's obvious the majority of people see it as a "been there, done that".
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shimiqua
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Yesterday they laid of 540 people who worked on the space shuttle program which was not renewed. So "Eh? Been there done that" attitude is affecting families, mortgages, and communitee I live in.

I'm just saying. What will there be for us to write about, if we have no spaceships to fly in?


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The shuttle was badly designed to begin with.
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quote:
What will there be for us to write about, if we have no spaceships to fly in?

As McKee said in response to "what if nothing happens, like in real life" in the great movie Adaptation:

"Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your f****** mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every f****** day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else. Every f****** day, someone, somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake, a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church. Someone goes hungry. Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don't know crap about life! And why the **** are you wasting my two precious hours with your movie? I don't have any use for it! I don't have any bloody use for it!"

I thought it was a humorous way to answer your question about what to write about.


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I am a very big supporter of the space program. People often don't realize how much our society has been effected by its research. Here is a recent thread that addresses inventions and innovations directly related to the space program. All of these discoveries have provided jobs for americans.

Most of the ills of society are related to poverty and either the inability to see beyond it or the decision to usurp society's boundaries. Invention, innovation, and exploration are the primary means of creating wealth. Limiting these, whether through taxation or lack of support, limits everyone's ability to prosper. Turn on the TV - 9.8% unemployment - and as Droopy Dog says, "Going up, Sir?"

[This message has been edited by philocinemas (edited October 07, 2009).]


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Rommel Fenrir Wolf II
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waite didnt i say something simmler about a year ago when i asked for people to donate money to my space program to build a moon base?

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RFWII, you also quoted Droopy Dog in relation to poverty and the space program? - small world.
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Rommel Fenrir Wolf II
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i did?

let me look for it in the older post from a year or so ago.

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Rommel Fenrir Wolf II
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PS: I have found it


http://www.hatrack.com/forums/writers/forum/Forum1/HTML/004771.html

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