Re: Are liberals dumber than conservatives?

From: Bill Bonde ( ``Soli Deo Gloria'' ) (stderr2_at_backpacker.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:25:58 -0700

"robert j. kolker" wrote:
>
> Bill Bonde ( ``Soli Deo Gloria'' ) wrote:
> > Bull. First of all, Mars has volatiles and the Moon has scant examples
> > of those, perhaps only some material with less water in it than earth
> > based concrete. Mars has an atmosphere which can be mined for CO2 and
> > water. So you are looking at the stuff of life and fuel available
> > anywhere on the planet in a potentially automated manner.
>
> All you have to do is coast in a free fall while being cooked by hard
> radiation from the sun. What is the shortest duration trip to Mars? Six
> months? Nine months? And then when they get there they have to wait two
> years for the planets to be close again.
>
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. Are you saying something
in response to what I said? 

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Here is such controversy between the sailors and the gentlemen, and such
stomaching between the gentlemen and sailors, that it doth even make me
mad to hear it. But, my masters, I must have it left. For I must have
the gentlemen to haul and draw with the mariner and the mariner with the
gentlemen. What! Let us show ourselves all to be of a company and let us
not give occasion to the enemy to rejoice at our decay and overthrow. I
would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know
there is not any such here." -+Sir Frances Drake

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