[extropy-chat] Huygens: First visitor to Titan

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Technotranscendence <neptune at superlink.net> wrote:
> On Friday, January 14, 2005 1:52 PM Adrian Tymes
> wingcat at pacbell.net
> wrote:
> > Sorry, but this is the thing that really sticks
> > out for me, much more than the science
> > data.  It takes *that much* to get a lander
> > onto Titan?  That's way more than we
> > should have to use.  We need to make
> > space exploration far more efficient.
> 
> Yes, and we already know part of the way to do this:
> privatize as much
> of it as possible.  The other part is to punish many
> of those involved
> in creating the efficiencies in the first place. 

Surely you mean "inefficiencies", no?  (And I'm not
sure punishing the creators would work as well as
punishing those who sustain the inefficiencies, in
light of better options.)