From: gvb@TEFS1.acd.com (Gregg Brown)
Subject: Re: What Do You Think?
Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute IN
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:51:42 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.151500.18431@engage.pko.dec.com> stanley@verga.enet.dec.com (My name is...) writes:
>
>In article <1992Oct1.053513.14191@netcom.com>, vere@netcom.com (Steven Vere) writes...
>
>>   Congressman  Traxler cares.    This   is  the gentleman who led the
>>recent attempt to cut  ALL funding for  the  space station  in  the US
>>House of Representatives.  In recent years the margin of  approval has
>>been progressively   diminishing.  Mr. Traxler  and his  bretheren are
>>going   to say, with  some  justification,   "Why  should we spend $20
>>billion over the next ten years on scientific research and engineering
>>when we could  use the money to rebuild  the slums in Detroit or start
>>reducing the federal deficit."  You could set up some relatively small
>>and cheap  Alien tech  transfer   committees that would  yield a  much
>>better return on the taxpayers' investment.   I would agree  with this
>>approach.    Prof. Luminary's knowledge, his   lab  equipment, and his
>>stock holdings  are now  worthless.  And  just as important,  his  ego
>>would be deflated and he would  be in  psychic shock.  The politicians
>>would  be justified in  freezing  or cancelling the  funding  for most
>>existing scientific research projects.  Only a  few would be continued
>>and redirected to examine the new Alien scientific theories.
>
>Is Professor Luminary's stock holdings and ego more important than the
>future an alien contact could open up for the rest of humanity?  
>
>
>>   We see a small hint of   the same  phenomenon in  the  effect on US
>>science and   engineering  of the collapse  of  the  Soviet  Union.  A
>>million scientist  and engineers  are losing  their jobs  because  the
>>justification for the projects went away.  Congress doesn't care.  Let
>>them relocate to Detroit  and fix potholes.  California  is now in the
>>worst economic condition since  the depression, with  defense spending
>>cuts a major cause.  Official  confirmation of  Alien technology would
>>magnify this  phenomenon 1000  times.   
>
>Oh come on... it would not... there aren't that many Professor Luminary's
>working for California. :-) 
>
>Hey Professor Luminary... the rest of us have to learn to get by when our
>jobs go away... get back to the real world and stop expecting humanity
>to forfeit it's future to protect your stock and your ego.
>
>Mary Stanley

Hey! Don't jump on Steve's back. He isn't saying its right. The fact is
humanity has, does, is and will forfeit it's future to protect Professor
Luminary's butt. Why should things change now? Shoot, it was like that
2,000 years ago. They hung Jesus on the cross for the same thing. He was
eroding the Jewish powerbase with a greater knowledge. They nailed him
to the tree. Process: different, Result: same. Powerbrokers must be 
information brokers. Hence, change the information the way you want it
and you get/keep your power. What we are talking about here has nothing
to do with scientific truth. As with myself, this fact of life discusts
real scientists.

Gregg

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