Re: [Phys-l] A solid round of boo to NASA

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

And the people on the new planet will self inflictedly extinguish 
themselves.

bc

Faraday321@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 3/30/2007 11:53:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> rtarara@saintmarys.edu writes:
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> No boos  from me.  The faster we develop the technology and then actually  
> deploy it to have a colony of humans housed elsewhere than this planet,  the 
> better--IMO.  With all the eggs in one basket we are a prime  setup for an 
> extinction event--be it asteroid, super-bug, or  self-inflicted.  A 
> self-sustaining colony on Mars is the only (near  term) insurance against 
> such.  A moon colony is probably a necessary  step towards the Mars one.  Too 
> bad we don't have money to do every  last thing everyone wants, but I'm in 
> NASA's corner on  this.
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> Rick
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> I think the hope that the Human race can survive the self inflicted  
> destruction of our environment by immigrating to other planets is a bit  unrealistic. 
> Most likely it will just be billions and billions of dollars to get  a few 
> photo opps for our astronauts while real science  using  much  more cost 
> effective unmanned probes will be starved for funds.
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>  The " new world" analogy you often see on this point overlooks the  fact 
> that the western hemisphere had air, water and sources of food. 
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>  Bob Zannelli 
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