Re: Not too happy about Tempel 1.

"TeaTime" <licknsticker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Robert Geake" <robert.geake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > With out reading all the other posts(cant be bothered at this time of
the
> > morning) i share a similar contempt for this operation as you. I did air
> > my
> > concerns on this group a few months back(just after the launch i think).
> > My
> > main concern is the ability of scientists to *beleive* they know all
there
> > is to know!
> >
> > My ideas that an alteration in orbit could end in disaster was
imideately
> > dismissed by every one that reply but as you i still find the operation
> > and
> > un-required *exploit* were the money would be better off spent on Mars
> > colonisation(where our future lies)...
> >
> > These concerns are reflected accross the entire space exploration
game!!!
> > Why spend vast amounts of money looking at Jupiters moons that we know
are
> > near impossible to terra-form when that same financial investment could
go
> > to colonising Mars!!
> >
> > For those that will shout "But Mars is to suffer the same fate as us
> > eventually!" yes, this i know but....It will give us another few
thousand
> > years! If the terrorists have not set of the third world war by then...
>
> It's a shame you didn't take two minutes to read the other posts, Robert,
as
> they are mostly quite lighthearted. Your own contribution seems full of
> doom and gloom (like 'Senna the Soothsayer, just passing through').
>
> At some point in the future, we may be faced with an asteroid or comet
> heading for Earth. If, like Tempel_1, it has volume/mass of about 100
cubic
> kilometres/100 billion tonnes, it would be reassuring to know we could hit
> it with something in an attempt to break it up and/or deflect it. The
> technological achievement in this latest bit of target practice would
appear
> to be very worthwhile for that reason alone then.
>
> The sums of money invested over the last decade on the various unmanned
> missions, like Cassini/Huygens, Mars Express/Rover, etc. etc. do not
amount
> to a tiny fraction of what is required to launch a manned mission to Mars.
> Consider the round trip requirements of the space vehicle alone. It will
be
> huge, let alone the cost of building the first pub there (Mars Bar 1)...
>
> As for terra-forming Mars, we hardly have the technology, or willing
> investors, to fill Africa with viable crops, let alone extraterrestrial
> allotments. And what fate is to befall Mars that hasn't already? We
know
> it lost most of its atmosphere and free water in the very distant past,
> becoming the desert we see now, so what are you on about guv'nor?
>
> Finally, it's difficult to see how the breakaway terrorist groups will
> initiate WWIII. By definition, they act in maverick style without the
> support of any of the major powers. And it is the major powers who have
> their fingers on the buttons.
>
> ---
> Acknowledgements to the late great Frankie Howerd for my quotation above.
> Never look a gift-horse in the mouth, it's the other end that feeds the
> rhubarb.
> (and that one).
>
>

I did read them! After i posted....My guess as to there/their(not sure of
context on that one :) content was about right!!!

Its not doom and gloom, just a distrust of science and the atitude of 'we
say its like this so it is' that some of the more intelligent humans tend to
display!!! I, as the rest of you, beleive no harm will come of it!!

As to the Mars thing, aggreed it has already been beset by disaster but as
the Sun warms and the small band of 'survivability' where its not too hot
and not too cold moves outwards earth will fry and Mars will become a warm
and green planet where we can buy ourselves a few thousand more years to
invent warp drive :)

<non racist opinion>
Africa!!! Synical and risky to say on a public NG, maybe birthcontrol would
be a better investment! In an area of natural resources the Tiger / Lion /
Elephant has a single child to give it a better chance of survival! The poor
African with no food and minimal dirty water decides they better have
twelve!!!
< / non racist opinion>

The chances of being able to fend off a coment or other small body in the
next hundred years or so are realisticly practically zero!!!


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