From: Jei (jei@cc.hut.fi)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 16:30:50 MST
I haven't read it but I vote for regime change in Mars!
Let's nuke those green goonies back to the stone age!
Seriously: what benefit would it be to us?
I can't see any material benefit, only scientific and
intellectual. It cannot effectively and economically
be used for anything before both Earth and Moon are
mined hollow, and even then it's use would remain questionable.
It makes a great election year show and guarantees
support from the techies, I guess. Bush will promise
both Mars and Moon to get re-elected, he knows his
lines and he will speak the speak that's for sure,
but you won't see the money coming or him walking the
walk when it's time.
Well, maybe if he get's to be the dictator he wants..
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Michelle Anderson wrote:
> Did you guys see this article in Slate?
>
> Is Mars Ours?
> The logistics and ethics of colonizing the red planet.
> By David Grinspoon
>
> <snip>
>
> These comments were amplified by panelist Lowell Wood, an architect of
> Reagan-era "Star Wars" space-based weapons plans. Wood stated
> confidently that terraforming Mars will happen in the 21st century. "It
> is the manifest destiny of the human race!" he declared and went on to
> boast, "In this country we are the builders of new worlds. In this
> country we took a raw wilderness and turned it into the shining city on
> the hill of our world." To hell with terraforming: It seemed that we
> were discussing the Ameriforming of Mars.
>
> <snip>
>
> I'd be fascinated at any discussion...
>
> Michelle
>
>
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