Re: [BNW] NASA in Brave New World

[Mark Kilfoil <kilfoilm@nbnet.nb.ca>]

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... ;)

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