[meteorite-list] Pluto's Fate to be Decided by 'Scientific andSimp

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Aug 16 00:42:03 2006
Message-ID: <20060816044200.22785.qmail_at_web36915.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi all -

Past my bedtime, and I feel I'm getting to be a bore,
but - one more post

Right about the waste of money flying men to Mars to
do a couple of robots work. The transportation costs
to and from Mars are too high and will always be to do
any development. On the other hand, we need to build
man tended impact detector systems on the Moon - and
that is what China will do around 2023, along with
mining 3He, if it proves cost effective.

What is being developed with ISS is 1) technologies
for manned Moon flight, and 2)international
cooperation, which will lower the cost of manned space
flight to a sustainable point.

Voila. A full inbox in the morning, filled with the
deranged howlings of the usual Mars Nuts.

good hunting,
Ed

--- Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_charter.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:24:11 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
> >When do we get back the tens of millions of dollars
> >spent looking for Nemesis? The NEO search teams
> could
> >really use it. There's those 64 fragments of SW3
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> >If I can get the money back, can I keep a
> percentage?
>
> Better yet, why not get back the billions spent on
> the ISS? I don't see much
> accomplished by spending all those years in LEO
> doing not much more than proving
> that they can spend all those years in LEO-- not
> enough of anything to justify
> the vast amount of money poured into it, at least.
> Get those billions back, and
> use the money to construct robot planetary (or
> asteroidal) probes-- where the
> REAL science and REAL triumphs come from NASA.
> Don't send a man to do a robot's
> job. (Okay, maybe not any of these robots:
> Http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=322)
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