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To: KevinDavis
A true american would go into space aboard the space shuttle.

America is a place to set up your Oneida, your New Harmony. It requires wilderness and a frontier. That America flourished 200 years ago, and is gone, gone, gone.

The American spirit needs land, lots of land, promising and unforgiving land. It is the land that allows dreams to be made real. America had that, but it is gone.

Time is now for the new America, the endless America, the America that goes on forever without limit in the expanding universe.

The Space Shuttle goes only across the Mississippi from St. Louis and back. America starts when the Space Shuttle leaves you out there. Out there where, believe it or not, a star was just discovered in Aries, only 7.8 lightyears away. We know nothing about the endless wilderness, and anything is possible out there. How can real Americans possibly be content to sit here at the dock in St. Louis when everything is just across there? If you go out there, you'll die. But guess what, if you stay here, you'll die anyway.

62 posted on 05/21/2003 9:43:23 AM PDT by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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To: RightWhale
What I should have said is yes the Space Shuttle is old technology and dangerous. I would still go on it. However, I would to go to Alpha Centauri or the new star that was discoverd. Personally I prefer to go to Alpha and hopefully find a Earth like planet and live there.
63 posted on 05/21/2003 10:19:17 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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