Re: [BNW] NASA in Brave New World

["Magician" <magician@bc1.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Kilfoil" <kilfoilm@nbnet.nb.ca>
To: <bnw@gamerz.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 3:23 AM
Subject: Re: [BNW] NASA in Brave New World


> At 10:35 PM 07/05/01 -0400, you wrote:
> > > Hi I need official info on Nasa, Does it exist in the Brave New
World?.
> > > Since alphas and delta could travel into outer space is there use for
> > > rockets and space shuttles?,
> >
> >Huh? Any delta traveling into space would sufficate. Unless it was a
> >"breather" PP that didn't need to breath. Of course then they'd roast on
> >one side, freeze on the other and explode from depressurization...
>
> True, but Flyers would probably make excellent zero-g combatants (or
> engineers), and Bouncers would probably have a ball..
>
> >Even saying alphas could is a stretch. Maybe a few, but probably the
> >majority would not have the right combo of powers to survive in space.
>
> There has to be at least one...  I mean, who *hasn't* thought of a
> Gadgeteer/Tough who has an orbiting space station, from which he/she plots
> their evil actions?  I mean, perhaps outer space was one of the places
> somewhat "immune" to the effects of the Bicentennial Bomb...
>
> And there has just *gotta* be that secret base on the moon...
>
> >I'd say with the genises and gadgeteers our there, and the need for
> >increased spy equipment that NASA would be alive and well. Although it
> >would probably a lot more of a political machine than it is in the real
> >world.
>
> NASA would have been dominated by Kennedy, and Kennedy might spend money
on
> spy equipment, but I doubt he'd give in to the more "frivolous" activities
> like sending people into space...
>
> However, he might also use it in the same way that many politicians used
> it...  Including the historical Kennedy:  we *will* go to the moon;  we do
> these things not because they are easy, but because they are *hard*...
>
> I cannot think of anything *official* off the top of my head, but there is
> plenty of potential there.  You can be that both the Soviets and the US
> have spy satellites, as well as China and possibly parts of
> Europe...   However, after the little "tactical nuclear exchange", both
> sides would be watching quite closely what the other is doing, and might
> even be engaged in old-fashioned "one-upmanship" again.
>
> But you *aren't* likely to see an ISS in the Brave New World...   At
least,
> not involving anyone besides the Americans, anyway, who *might* be so bold
> as to call it "International" anyway... ;)
>
> EVER DEFIANT!
>
> encafONE
>
> Saving the world one COFFEE at a time...
> * * * the encaffeinated ONE * * *

The reason I asked is that one could put alot of secert stuff in space,
Kennedy the fake one could put delta tracking equipment in space and have a
hidden base as well.