[Marxism] Star wars

["Tom O'Lincoln" <suarsos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It would be interesting to know what listers think about George Bush's
announcement of a new space program. I assume that it's partly to create a
feel-good effect for the election, of course.

In Australia I get the impression it will be used to give a warm and fuzzy
gloss to "Missile Defence". Last night on TV this news item was the
occasion to run old footage of Kennedy announcing the plan to go to the
moon.

I expect we will be torn, as we have in some earlier debates, here, between
opposition to the undoubted military agenda behind it and sympathy for the
undoubted genuine scientific spin-offs.

There is also the environmental side perhaps. My almost immediate thought
when Bush talked about going to Mars was: "what's the rush, we haven't
finished wrecking this planet yet".

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