Politics and going to Space with humans -

Back from Thailand. Normally I have just posted clips from Internet links that relate to Space. Since blog sites are for expressing ideas and opinions I will pass some thoughts and feel free to contact me if I strike a chord.

While in a five star hotel in Bangkok Thailand I could read "the Nation", a local news paper in English. I could also go to McDonalds, KFC, Shakey's Pizza, and Starbucks not far from the hotel.

While reading the newspaper I could hear about the Internet worms and viruses and even GOOGLE being slowed by infected computers searching for more names to hammer. (hence the 1000 e-mails I had to delete from my two PC's at home.)

What really struck me though was reading about the local problems with contracts and graft, and then reading about similar Enron type activities about the global enterprises. It seems that wherever you find big business you find a good chance for greed and self interest.

I began to wonder just how we will finance going back to Moon with the idea of really establishing a human presence in space and so I will continue to read papers, magazines like the "Economist" and see if I can get a better understanding of what is going on around this "Blue Marble".

There needs to be a unifying, gut wrenching desire, to go space and develop this new frontier.

Larry Russell Kellogg