[ExI] Manned Spaceflight (Was: future fizzle)

John K Clark jonkc at bellsouth.net
Mon Jun 1 14:55:21 UTC 2009


"Stathis Papaioannou" <stathisp at gmail.com>

> Most of science, commerce and even military spending is ultimately for
> entertainment purposes, since everything above subsistence is
> entertainment.

You don't go far enough, by that same criteria one could say that the reason
most people prefer being alive rather than dead is because they fine it more
entertaining.

When a concept becomes too broad or too specific it is no longer useful.

 John K Clark




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