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Re: Mission to Mars

From: Michael Llaneza <maserati@f...>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:17:12 -0800
Subject: Re: Mission to Mars

At 8:07 PM -0400 4/16/00, adrian.johnson@sympatico.ca wrote:
>
>While I don't advocate an opinion for or against his ideas, as Los
pointed
>out (I think) one of the great things about Heinlein's writing was that
he
>was willing to postulate a society with political values that many of
us
>would consider extreme.  Makes for interesting and exciting reading.

And we're *still* discussing it. Keep in mind that in a lot of 
societies in the 20th century just this kind of talk would land all 
parties in a labor camp or up against a wall in a prison cellar, 
except possibly for the first person to run to the secret police.

-- 

Michael Carter Llaneza
Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1991-1950
Devolution is very real to me.
Whenever I hear the "Odd Couple" theme, I get this image of Dennis 
Rodman borrowing Marge Schott's toothbrush.
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