[ExI] Call for presentations at International Space Development Conference 2008

[Kevin Freels]

spike wrote:
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> 	Amara D. Angelica wrote: 
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> 		I'm chairing a session on May 29 at the National Space
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> 	This looks like an excellent opportunity for spike to present the
> Midgets to Mars campaign..... I mean, "The benefits of utilizing human
> beings of considerably small stature to reduce space exploration and
> colonization costs and increase efficiency without the need for expensive
> and experimental augmentation."  Kevin
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> I pitched the idea to a group of aerospace weight engineers.  It didn't sell
> at first.  They had to go home and do the calculations themselves.
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> spike
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They had to go home to do the calculations? When I first mentioned it to 
my 12 yr old daughter she thought it was so obvious she was surprised it 
hadn't already been done. To her it wasn't "why don't we send really 
small people into space?", it was "Why have we been sending full-sized 
humans all this time?" She can't do all of the calculations but from her 
little experience flying model rockets with me she knows that when you 
reduce launch weight, you can reduce fuel which of course reduces the 
weight even further.