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To: NormsRevenge; biblewonk
While I remain unconvinced that any space exploration -- much less the expense associated with human space exploration -- is Constitutional, I must say the Hubble space telescope has provided me with a LOT of happiness.

Perhaps those of us who enjoy it should be the ones to chip in to fix it. I can't see taking food off my neighbor's table to fix the toys of my hobby.

8 posted on 02/07/2005 9:22:01 AM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: newgeezer
is Constitutional

Always should be mentioned. We will find our precious country left in the dust of history--a footnote--if we don't advance at least as fast as the new contenders. There is a big challenge from the EU, and of course China keeps building and building at their snail's pace. Ignoring space development on the public sector level is a public crime. We're not going to retire to our single-family vegetable gardens and expect to survive in the decades ahead. Survival at least, and preeminence if possible should be our goal. We won't survive if we don't compete. National survival is implied at least in the Constitution.

18 posted on 02/07/2005 9:40:30 AM PST by RightWhale (Please correct if cosmic balance requires.)
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To: newgeezer

> I remain unconvinced that any space exploration -- much less the expense associated with human space exploration -- is Constitutional

So you think national defense is unConstitutional?


31 posted on 02/07/2005 9:56:46 AM PST by orionblamblam
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To: newgeezer

Space exploration is Defense spending and therefore constitutional. If we can control the gravity well, we can control the world (Likewise if the Red Chinese control the gravity well, they control the world).


142 posted on 02/07/2005 1:00:19 PM PST by tort_feasor (FreeRepublic.com - Tommorrow's News, Today)
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To: newgeezer
Hmmm.

Salvage

Griffith stars as a junkyard owner who builds a space ship from his scrap pile in order to retreive valuable parts left on the moon by American Astronauts.

Sci-Fi becomes reality ?

Salvage

145 posted on 02/07/2005 3:42:31 PM PST by quietolong
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To: newgeezer

Constitutional schmonstitutional.


146 posted on 02/07/2005 3:44:40 PM PST by biblewonk (Neither was the man created for woman but the woman for the man.)
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To: newgeezer
Hmmm.

Salvage

Griffith stars as a junkyard owner who builds a space ship from his scrap pile in order to retreive valuable parts left on the moon by American Astronauts.

Sci-Fi becomes reality ?

Salvage

147 posted on 02/07/2005 3:44:50 PM PST by quietolong
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To: newgeezer

SPace exploration will benifit us all. One day we will need to leave this planet. What if a Extinction Level Event happened? We also need to militarize space and prevent hostile nations like the EU and China from having ANY access to space.


151 posted on 02/07/2005 5:16:34 PM PST by Paul_Denton (The UN is UN-American! Get the UN out of the US and US out of the UN!)
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To: newgeezer

>>> While I remain unconvinced that any space exploration -- much less the expense associated with human space exploration -- is Constitutional <<<<

Better read your Constitutional once more.
Space exploration is one of the few things the Fed. gov. does that is mandated by the Constitution.


181 posted on 02/07/2005 6:36:33 PM PST by quietolong
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