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Re: [ARSCLIST] NASA
Me, I'd settle for some more FLAT space. And more storage space. The final frontiers.
dl
Tom Fine wrote:
> Yeah, OK, but for now we don't have the money or, I'm afraid, the skill set to pull it off. So I
> think it's a dumb use of limited resources.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Breneman" <david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] NASA
>
> > --- Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Hey, if the president has his way with the national treasure, we
> >> will be blowing large clumps of
> >> money in the near future to go back for ... what???
> >
> > Well Tom, there's more to exploring space than taking
> > information from other places and relaying it back here.
> > This planet isn't going to last forever. Some time in the
> > next couple 100,000 years there's going to be another
> > cataclysmic meteor impact of the type that wiped out the
> > dinosaurs, and even if we're able to divert that, the Sun is
> > eventually going to expand and swallow up the Earth.
> >
> > So mankind's destiny must be to move out from the Earth,
> > first to nearby places like the Moon and Mars, and
> > eventually to other solar systems. It will take
> > thousands of years. We've wasted 30. Why waste more?
> > It's going to be a long, slow process, but it needs
> > to begin eventually, and I'm selfish enough to want
> > to live to see permanant bases on the Moon, and people
> > on Mars, so sue me. :-)
> >
> > Besides, as archivists, we'll need to have found somewhere
> > safe to put our stuff before the Sun goes nova.
> >
> >
> > David Breneman david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx
> >
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