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- From: Nick_Janow@mindlink.bc.ca (Nick Janow)
- Subject: Re: future space travel
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:30:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <19463@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (rabjab) writes:
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- > If they don't find water on the moon, I have a hard time believing that
- > there will ever be large colonies there.
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- Why not? there's plenty of water only a small delta-v away (asteroids, Mars'
- moons, etc).
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- > Mars will be the only real place for a large colony, but then again, if
- > there isn't anything there that's very interesting (like life or fossils) I
- > can't see large colonies being placed up there.
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- Who needs a gravity well (otherwise known as planet)? The entire solar
- system could be colonized. All you really need is raw materials and energy,
- and those exist in convenient packages out in the solar system.
-
- Do you have to have a planet under you just because your parents did? Let
- your imagination roam... :)
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- Nick_Janow@mindlink.bc.ca
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