Australia must be part of the 'Final Frontier'

We need to focus ALL our energies on saving this planet - and convincing everyone else to do the same. There is only ebver one beneficiary form spending so much money on "space travel" and that is hte military industrial complex. Get real everyone. There is no place for EVERYONE "out there" only a very few - and even then it won't ever be as nice as where we are!

Not with my money, thank you. If you want to enter the space race do what Richard Branson has done and start your own company. That way the government will not be stealing more money via the tax system.

If the utter inanity of comments so far, prevails, Australia will NEVER have a seat at the table of space-faring nations and we will only deserve too well to miss out on the benefits exploring that frontier may offer.

If Australia seems like an investor's land of milk and honey today, it just SEEMS that way. Global forces are now brewing that will consign this nation to a mere mine with foreign owned gambling & tourist resorts scattered around its coasts. A federal government without OIL or PBR-nuclear-power or a GEOTHERMAL power program will not have the transport facitities to maintain law and order and will rapidly lose control to foreign interests in regional centres.

Great civilisations of the past were too willing to forego exploration and greedily solve existing problems for the rich against the background of increasing general poverty. Australia is sailing close to that wind. These civilisations have without exception been assigned to the scap heap of history.

Only those civilisations that looked beyond their circumstances and invested in sometimes failure prone explorations have been the great survivors. Columbus was never sent west to find a quick route to India because it was easy or cheap or did not subtract from extreme, costly social problems in Spain. He was sent because it was hard, because it was a challenge and because in the context of thermodynamic probability and indeed of modern history, it was RIGHT.

It is an unwritten law that investors averse to calculated risks may live lazy and get fat off the land today, but will not survive to see tomorrow's dawning new age in civilisation. They may not even last to see the end of the coming US recession. Who will shed a tear?

Sir Vivor

Apologies for the omission in "Nuke Power and Water Scarcity." I do usually endeavour to supply a reference.

Since I've exhausted my posts on that thread, this gate-crash is to advise you of the URL you requested:

http://www.ccamu.ca/uranium-science.htm

Spain must NOT be part of the 'Final Frontier'

Spain needs to focus ALL its energies on saving this country - and convincing every spaniard to do the same. There is only ever one beneficiary from spending so much money on "sea travel" and that is the military industrial complex. Get real everyone. There is no place for EVERYONE "sailing out westward & falling off the edge of the Earth". Only a very few could survive the sea monsters - and even then it won't ever be as nice as where we are in Spain!

Posted by Don Giovanni, 22 October 1491 7:16:40 PM

Unfortunately Don Giovanni was beheaded on October 22 1494.