<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 16:58 John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">And I still haven't received a word of explanation why any scientifically minded person should have the slightest respect or sympathy for ignorant barbarians who are committing blatantly illegal acts. </div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1) Not owed an explanation. But there is something romantic about it. The observatory is replaceable, in the end. The history of the space otherwise is not.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Would you build over ancient ruins of, say, the birthplace of chemistry, or some once glorious city, to build a hydrological research station? What about razing Isaac Newton's birthplace to build an art museum?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Not saying necessarily that either of those or wrong, just trying to give you a sense of why history and sentiment matter. Do you have any items you've owned for a long time that you cherish? Perhaps one that belonged to a deceased relative.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Well, go throw all that shit away. It's not *magic*.</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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