Date:         Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:34:34 -0400
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From:         Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
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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.

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From: "David Breneman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] NASA


> --- Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> 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         [log in to unmask]
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