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Civics 101 - This isn't a democracy

Larry J — 12/19/2002 12:56:25 PM (archived)

It's a representative republic. Unless the representatives vote for it, it won't happen. Besides, there isn't any groundswell of public opinion to spend tens of billions of dollars to go to Mars or the moon. If there were, you would've heard politicians running on a space platform. We just had elections for all 435 members of the House and about 35 Senate seats. How many candidates were running on a big space platform?

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Mir Alum & Future ISS Commander Says Time For Mars - Mark Eby - 12/19/2002 4:02:33 PM
- Sexual Deprivation presents serious obstacle to manned Mars flight - E.P. Grondine - 12/21/2002 6:25:49 PM
  - This is starting to look like brain damage...(n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/21/2002 7:13:40 PM
- Isn't that special - Larry J - 12/19/2002 5:05:22 PM
  - Isn't that special - robert_d - 12/19/2002 8:24:33 PM
    - Re: Isn't that special - p - 12/19/2002 8:42:13 PM
    - Except you couldn't do it for that price - Larry J - 12/19/2002 9:16:05 AM
      - Yes You Can In $/yr - Mark Eby - 12/21/2002 5:36:09 PM
  - Isn't That Contradictory? - Mark Eby - 12/19/2002 10:42:40 AM
    - Re: No more 1960 - Raoul - 12/19/2002 11:05:38 AM
    - There's no money for either - Larry J - 12/19/2002 10:56:22 AM
      - Re: There's no money for either - gbaikie - 12/19/2002 12:17:33 PM
        
        Re: There's no money for either - Mark Eby - 12/20/2002 4:45:38 PM
        
        Re: There's no money for either - gbaikie - 12/20/2002 7:26:00 PM
      - It's Called Democracy For A Reason - Mark Eby - 12/19/2002 11:20:50 AM
        
        Civics 101 - This isn't a democracy - Larry J - 12/19/2002 12:56:25 PM
        
        An Imperfect Democracy - Mark Eby - 12/19/2002 4:26:21 PM
        
        Re: Civics 101 - This isn't a democracy - Chris Vancil - 12/19/2002 1:16:22 PM
        
        Hard truth - Tom Brosz - 12/19/2002 7:41:55 PM
        
        And we need a large spaceplane before that can happen... - Scott - 12/20/2002 8:00:20 PM
        
        Space advocates only make up a tiny percentage of the electorate - Larry J - 12/19/2002 1:36:58 PM
        
        Re: The squeaky wheel gets the oil. Size doesn't matter as long as we don't sound like nuts case (EPG&BD excluded). n/t (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 12/19/2002 7:41:36 PM
- That's not where we need them to work right now - E.P. Grondine - 12/19/2002 1:58:33 PM
  - Wy not use Mars or the Moons of Mars for observations? - Scott - 12/20/2002 7:43:46 PM

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