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John F. Kennedy
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain. Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
Flip Flopper
Tue, 07/13/2004 - 10:39 — kebernet
Good story at the NYT about the coming reversal of the Earth's magnetic field. There is also a REALLY good Nova on the subject entitled Magnetic Storm. This is one of those things that will keep you up at night if you think too hard about it.
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RE: Flip Flopper
I saw the title and just assumed that this was about Kerry. ;)
RE: Flip Flopper
Cooper posts great astronomy articles on here.
RE: Flip Flopper
Yeah well, if you really want a political rant: (NTY article)
"The discipline is one of a number - like high-energy physics and aspects of space science - where Europeans have recently come from behind to seize the initiative, dismaying some American experts."
Maybe its because Clinton killed the SSC, while CERN has all kinds of shiny new toys, and Bush has whacked the hard-science budget at the NSF and NASA to nearly nothing. Government spending on science and education is investment in the future. Cutting it is simply the most fiscally irresponsible thing you can possibly do.
There. :P