(urth) The Cumaean
Gerry Quinn
gerry at bindweed.com
Fri May 10 06:01:24 PDT 2013
From: Lee Berman
> In more recent days, G.W. Bush is practically laughed out of office for
> suggesting we put
> a man on Mars. And despite all the SF of my childhood, and the amazing
> accomplishment of
> early space travel, I must concur with the majority: human bodies are
> terribly impractical
> space cargo. We might as well let the robots do that job. Send Jonah and
> Ossipago and Sidero
> and chems and taluses out there and keep the people on Urth.
A lot of people are willing to sign up for a one-way trip to Mars (though I
think they are optimistic if they assume their life expectancy there would
be high).
What I always find a little odd is that there is not anything like the same
interest in colonising the sea-bed. You'd think that would be easier, and
possibly more useful. Are martians just that much cooler than mermen?
- Gerry Quinn
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