Search the web
Sign In
New User? Sign Up
Scipolicy-L · Science and health policy discussion group. For professional practitioners, reseachers, faculty, policy-makers, administrators
  • Members Only
  • Post
  • Files
  • Photos
  • Links
  • Database
  • Polls
  • Calendar
  • Promote
  • Groups Labs (Beta)
? Already a member? Sign in to Yahoo!

Yahoo! Groups Tips

Did you know...
Want your group to be featured on the Yahoo! Groups website? Add a group photo to Flickr.

Best of Y! Groups

   Check them out and nominate your group.
Having problems with message search? Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.

Messages

   Messages Help
Message #
Search:
Advanced
the "sentimental crap" of manned space travel?   Message List  
Reply | Forward Message #720 of 1214 |
Re: [Scipolicy-L] the "sentimental crap" of manned space travel?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Norman Levitt" <njlevitt@...>
To: <Scipolicy-L@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 3:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Scipolicy-L] the "sentimental crap" of manned space travel?


<<"Space exploration" is not a terrily good characterization of the shuttle
program. What, precisely, is being explored when six or seven people are
put into low orbit for a couple of weeks like hundreds before them? >>

How about what we learn regarding human physiology under weightless
conditions? The same applies to exploring numerous biological processes
through experiments.

Ronald J. Riley www.rjriley.com
Sun Feb 2, 2003 2:24 pm

Show Message Option
rjriley2
Offline Offline
Send Email Send Email

Forward 		Message #720 of 1214 |
Expand Messages Author Sort by Date

Norman Levitt scornfully dismisses as "sentimental crap" the romance of manned space travel centered on "glamour-boy pilots." But doesn't this ignore the... 		Larry Arnhart
TI0LEA1@...
Send Email 		Feb 2, 2003
4:36 am

... "Space exploration" is not a terrily good characterization of the shuttle program. What, precisely, is being explored when six or seven people are put...
Norman Levitt
njlevitt@...
Send Email 		Feb 2, 2003
8:13 am

I believe that Norman Levitt has provided just the right context for thinking about the Columbia disaster. And I also share his suspicions and prognoses...
Steve Fuller
s.w.fuller@...
Send Email 		Feb 2, 2003
9:47 am

I agree with both Fuller and Levitt. That said, let's turn our eyes from the stars above our heads to the detritus under our feet. There is an article in the...
Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
bradmcc@...
Send Email 		Feb 2, 2003
11:58 am

... From: "Norman Levitt" <njlevitt@...> To: <Scipolicy-L@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 3:11 AM Subject: Re: [Scipolicy-L] the...
Ronald J. Riley
rjriley2
Offline Send Email 		Feb 2, 2003
2:20 pm

... We cannot afford to do everything. Is the shuttle a better investment of our limited resources than, e.g., the Supercollider? As for studying the...
Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
bradmcc@...
Send Email 		Feb 2, 2003
2:39 pm

... Tim Ferris, the excellent science writer, once observed that conducting a space program with the purpose of learning how humans and other organisms ...
Norman Levitt
njlevitt@...
Send Email 		Feb 2, 2003
6:11 pm

... From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <bradmcc@...> To: <Scipolicy-L@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [Scipolicy-L] the...
Ronald J. Riley
rjriley2
Offline Send Email 		Feb 2, 2003
10:09 pm

... Let me say where I REALLY think some funding should go. Edmund Husserl spent his life trying to elucidate how the Galilean mathematical sciences of nature...
Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
bradmcc@...
Send Email 		Feb 4, 2003
10:44 pm

... From: "Norman Levitt" <njlevitt@...> To: <Scipolicy-L@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [Scipolicy-L] the...
Ronald J. Riley
rjriley2
Offline Send Email 		Feb 2, 2003
10:31 pm

... Yoour evident indignation might better be slaked by supplanting the administrations current policy on population control by one that is more concerned with...
Norman Levitt
njlevitt@...
Send Email 		Feb 3, 2003
12:08 am

... This is rather like hiring the Vienna Philharmonic to come over to your house, all expenses paid, to put a CD in your player. Not exactly a wonder of...
Norman Levitt
njlevitt@...
Send Email 		Feb 3, 2003
12:20 am

Stephen-- As we pause for breath, could I request a little less promotional bumpf attached to each post please? By the time everyone has attached their own sig...
J. Atkinson-Grosjean
janetat@...
Send Email 		Feb 3, 2003
4:52 am

... From: "J. Atkinson-Grosjean" <janetat@...> To: <Scipolicy-L@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 11:52 PM Subject: Re:...
Ronald J. Riley
rjriley2
Offline Send Email 		Feb 3, 2003
1:14 pm

... From: "Norman Levitt" <njlevitt@...> To: <Scipolicy-L@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [Scipolicy-L] the...
Ronald J. Riley
rjriley2
Offline Send Email 		Feb 3, 2003
3:06 am

... From: "Norman Levitt" <njlevitt@...> To: <Scipolicy-L@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 7:07 PM Subject: Re: [Scipolicy-L] the...
Ronald J. Riley
rjriley2
Offline Send Email 		Feb 3, 2003
3:48 am

... Fine by me. So when do we start bombing the hell out of Saudi Arabia? NL _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps...
Norman Levitt
njlevitt@...
Send Email 		Feb 3, 2003
4:51 am

and Yemen, and Kuwait, and a host of others who have done us wrong. Fred Frederick W. Stoss, M.S. (zool.), M.L.S. Biological Sciences Librarian 228-B Capen...
Frederick W Stoss
auswulff
Offline Send Email 		Feb 3, 2003
5:08 pm
< Prev Topic  |  Next Topic >
Message #
Search:
Advanced
Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Guidelines - Help