(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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