[ExI] the right stuff

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:42 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>... On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl
> Subject: [ExI] the right stuff
>
>>...If monkeys are to travel, they should strive to be like
> http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4001832/2ft-tall-Jyoti-Amge-is-the
> -worlds-smallest-woman.html
>
> The mass of a pressure vessel scales as the cube of the linear dimension.
> Repeat it like a mantra.

The problem of getting people into space has far more to do with the
efficiency of thrust than the mass of the payload.  Repeat it like a mantra.

Any effort toward making people smaller, will have a far higher effort to
reward ratio spent instead in improving telepresence and robotics.
Repeat it like a mantra.