[FPSPACE] Please, stop it (was should MirCorp become philanthropic foundation?)

[Dwayne Allen Day]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 dconst+@pyrrhus.cimds.ri.cmu.edu wrote:

> the decision to deorbit Mir may or may be not be officialy proposed today
> - but nothing really depends on opinions expressed at the FPSPACE
> mailing list.

Well, as it turns out, nothing at all discussed on FPSpace affects
anything on the planet.  So are you proposing eliminating the group
completely because it is pointless?


> plus, in any event, this was a very first real effort to create commercial 
> space station. MirCorp deserves respect for this and let's give them
> some credit.

I argue the complete opposite--that this was a _bad_ first effort to
create a commercial space station and that bad efforts actually hurt
future efforts.  You cannot simply say "Their hearts were in the right
place," and ignore the consequences of their actions.

And I will not even go into the issue of how MirCorp has affected Russian
participation in ISS.



DDAY