[extropy-chat] Mars Colonies Coming Soon?

[Dirk Bruere]

Ian Goddard wrote:

>--- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
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>>Ian Goddard wrote:
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>>>Here's a National Geographic News article on the
>>>possible future colonization of Mars. [1] Not
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>>A man on Mars by 1985!
>>Where is Spiro when you really need him...
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> Right, albeit that disparity between previously
>projected plans and their unfulfillment isn't so much
>a measure of what was or is possible but of where our
>priorities have been placed. 
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If the US cannot do it now or within the next 15yrs it's going to be 
someone else, probably the Chinese.
Right now the US is at the height of its power with no rivals in sight.
It won't stay that way.
Maybe if $300billion had been earmarked for a Mars landing instead of a 
useless war I'd be more optimistic.

-- 
Dirk

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