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Letter: Letter

Published 21 November 1998

From Frode Hegland

What is science but a sense of wonder about the world? Why should the most
awesome view of the world be in the exclusive domain of well-funded fogies in
white lab coats who can afford to “patch one together from existing
satellites”?

For the price of a couple of fighter planes, generations to come may behold a
single, unified, beautiful pearl, illuminating, in the bleakness of outer space,
our common world and our common future. An inspiration to all of humanity.

Now that’s what I call an investment.

frode@liquidinformation.com

Issue no. 2161 published 21 November 1998

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