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Article: The wrong stuff. (manned space exploration)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- July 1, 1994
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I am of a generation that still distinguished between intellect and reason. Intellect separates the possible from the impossible, reason the sensible from the senseless. Space travel is a triumph of intellect but a tragic failure of reason. --Max Born (1882-1970)
July 20, 1994, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing, would be as good a time as any to can a halt to that vainglorious exercise in hubris known as manned space flight--at least until problems more relevant to the human condition have been solved and money is again available for institutionalized silliness. As Max Born, a 1954 Nobel Prize winner in physics, said not long before ...