Re: The Phoenix has landed!

On May 26, 4:29 pm, "Robert J. Kolker" <bobkol...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ye Old One wrote:
On Mon, 26 May 2008 07:09:55 -0400, "Robert J. Kolker"
<bobkol...@xxxxxxxxxxx> enriched this group when s/he wrote:

Ye Old One wrote:

Well, space exploration may well save the lives of your descendants
one day.

We are premature.

Maybe, maybe not.

First let us develop a method of propulsion that does
not require a coast and burn in free fall.

We have.

Excessive time in free fall
leeches the calcium from the bones.

So we don't go in free fall.

At least the Phoenix program is unmanned. So we have something to be
thankful for.

Hopefully we will go soon. The sooner the better - we are already at
least 30 years behind.

Why bother. Mars is of less value than the moon. The moon can be used
for basing observatories on the Far Side (the side that does not face
the earth) and it is also military high ground.  Large rocks can be
launched from the moon by using electromagentic rail guns.

You want another world to play on, use the Moon. It is closer and has
some military and scientific use.

Bob Kolker





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So just where is your cutoff on when funding for exploration stops.
The moon?, and asteroid just beyond the moon? Some magical boundary
halfway to Mars?

Above you say we need to find a new propulsion system. Leaving aside
the fact that we already have several different ones, just how do you
propose we develope one if we are not allowed to investigate space?

Harry K


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