<div class="gmail_quote">On 30 July 2011 19:54, David Lubkin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lubkin@unreasonable.com">lubkin@unreasonable.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">John Clark wrote:<br>
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Yes but that's not what people mean when they say they want to go to Mars, they're talking about spending a hundred trillion dollars or so to get half a dozen people to Mars, have them fuck around Mars for a couple of months, and then spend another hundred trillion dollars to reverse that herculean task and bring them all back to Earth.<br>
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Is there anyone *here* advocating that?<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes, there is. :-)<br><br>Apollo happened for a reason. Same the expeditions to geographic poles and to Mt. Everest. <br></div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>