[extropy-chat] Re: Are dwarfs better for long duration spaceflight?

[Adrian Tymes]

--- The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Unless the mass of crew is a significant issue for
> feul economy purposes,

IIRC, this is what started the whole topic.

> in which case you are probably
> better off sending unmanned probes until you get a
> better propulsion system,

Agreed.  If you're so close to the limits that the mass of the crew
(and life support systems) plays a major factor in the engineering,
you're too close to the limit for sufficiently reliable (as in, odds of
avoiding fatalities) manned spaceflight, especially if it is intended
to
be long duration.