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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 1990 02:34:59 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: SPACE Digest V12 #113

SPACE Digest                                     Volume 12 : Issue 113

Today's Topics:
			       A Story

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Date: 23 Jul 90 06:18:30 GMT
From: dd2f+@andrew.cmu.edu  (Daniel Alexander Davis)
Subject: A Story

I know this isn't the place for it, but can I offer you a small story:

Our story is set in the near future, and NASA is working on a
multi-billion dollar project with Russia.  The news showcase the
results of NASA's latest accident:

"In an efficiency test of the New Dysan Weather Station (DWS)'s lasers,
the ocean's around Tokyo boiled and unfortunately Japan and Africa
have no government - there have been millions of deaths...there will
be an official board of inquiry shortly...the middle east expresses
concern...President Marshall Kobe of Russia announced that the KGB has
long known that NASA's ineptitude was all a clever ploy..."

I really am getting tired of NASA bashing and praise.  NASA's projects
aren't off the shelf, they "push the envelope", but there isn't any
other government or civilian group who has been doing the proper off
the shelf work because Congress wants NASA too, and many NASA
employees want a NASA which wants envelope pushers to do the work of
trucks.

I don't want to work for NASA, but I thank those here who do, for they
post good info.  They did *before* HST, and I think they will keep on
doing it, because they are making space happen as best they can, not
just talking about it.  No matter how hard I work to catch up with
their knowledge, I will have intimate knowledge of other things.

Thank you Peter Yee, Thank you Ron Baalke, Thank you Henry.
Thank you all those I missed (as an undergraduate in music, I don't
always read everything).

Dan Davis (is), the Repunzel of the Mathematics Department.
Carnegie Mellon undergraduate
Disclaimer - don't look at me, I'm also a music major, 
I don't have to know what I'm doing.
dd2f+@andrew.cmu.edu(INTERNET).

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