(urth) The Cumaean
David Stockhoff
dstockhoff at verizon.net
Fri May 10 06:27:38 PDT 2013
On 5/10/2013 9:01 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
> 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?
Well, it IS dark down there. You won't be bringing home any snapshots of
sunsets. But you're right---a voyage to either place would be a
claustrophobic nightmare for many people, with one trip much shorter
than the other.
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