Aucbvax.6061 fa.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!space Wed Feb 3 03:37:09 1982 SPACE Digest V2 #96 >From OTA@S1-A Wed Feb 3 03:31:48 1982 SPACE Digest Volume 2 : Issue 96 Today's Topics: Government Funding of Exploration (previous article) Shuttle Progress Re: sri-unix.660: ARPANET Withholding Tax? Time Article on Ariane space duplication poking agin post script TECHNOLOGY VS. HUMANISM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon Feb 1 15:36:32 1982 To: Space at MIT-MC From: ARPAVAX.Onyx.jmrubin at Berkeley Subject: Government Funding of Exploration (previous article) Source-Info: From (or Sender) name not authenticated. As I recall, off hand, the British East India Company and the Hudson's Bay Company, and the British West India Company were NOT supported by laissez-faire types. They supported MERCANTILISM which was precisely what laissez-faire types were against. Joel Rubin ------------------------------ Date: Tue Feb 2 07:49:36 1982 To: Space at MIT-MC From: ucbvax!mhtsa!alice!sjb at Berkeley Subject: Shuttle Progress Source-Info: From (or Sender) name not authenticated. At midnight tonight, the shuttle Columbia will be moved, a day early, from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building. There, it will be mated with the external tank and SRB assembly. NASA officials say that the shuttle should be able to be rolled to pad 39A by 21 February, leading to a late March launch. ------------------------------ Date: Tue Feb 2 09:23:23 1982 To: Space at MIT-MC From: ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!chico!duke!dukgeri!ccw at Berkeley Subject: Re: sri-unix.660: ARPANET Withholding Tax? Source-Info: From (or Sender) name not authenticated. The problem with missing parts of messages appears to originate at ARPAVAX. Their "news" program is throwing away first lines and, from what I hear, everybody who can fix it is at the USENIX conference! ------------------------------ Date: Tue Feb 2 11:15:13 1982 To: Space at MIT-MC From: ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!karn at Berkeley Subject: Time Article on Ariane Source-Info: From (or Sender) name not authenticated. The current issue of Time Magazine (February 8, 1982) has an article on the European Space Agency's Ariane launcher, along with a picture of the nighttime liftoff of L04 (the fourth test flight conducted last month). Arianespace, the private corporation that will handle commercial launches of the Ariane, is currently asking $25 million per launch. Phil Karn ------------------------------ Date: Tue Feb 2 11:57:01 1982 To: Space at MIT-MC From: ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!uwvax!jon at Berkeley Subject: space duplication Source-Info: From (or Sender) name not authenticated. The easiest way to prevent duplication of articles in net.space and arpanet's space digest is to do away with net.space! why have a set-up where we KNOW that articles will come out twice? why make the digest moderator clean up the mess? Jon Mauney (uwvax!jon) ------------------------------ Date: Tue Feb 2 12:14:01 1982 To: Space at MIT-MC From: ucbvax!decvax!yale-com!harley at Berkeley Subject: poking agin Source-Info: From (or Sender) name not authenticated. for the record, i am an artist (writer & painter, mostly) who supports himself by programming computers. i know a number of other artists. i don't know any ARTISTS who disparage technology. i know a few humanists who disparage technology, but they are in the minority. personally, i don't disparage technology, but i tend to be very thoughtful, so i think a lot of technology is not worth having. like food processors & neutron bombs. i know a lot of scientists too, & a fair number of them have a very limited appreciation of art. the scientists/technoligists i know who do appreciate art tend to be humanists as well, so i think the comparison of techno-humano is balderdash. there are just people who are more limited than others. however, they don't bother me as much as people who are DEPENDENT on technology. - me again (yale-comix!harley) ------------------------------ Date: Tue Feb 2 12:27:36 1982 To: Space at MIT-MC From: ucbvax!decvax!yale-com!harley at Berkeley Subject: post script Source-Info: From (or Sender) name not authenticated. post script to last message: i would regard the space program as a very expensive piece of art with some technological spinoffs. ------------------------------ Date: 2 February 1982 23:46-EST From: Gene Salamin Subject: TECHNOLOGY VS. HUMANISM To: SPACE at MIT-MC A long time ago I forgot what started this discussion. It doesn't seem to be related to space issues. Let's move it to some other mailing list. ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest ******************* ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.