Re: Are liberals dumber than conservatives?

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

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:00:21 -0700

"robert j. kolker" wrote:
>
> Bill Bonde ( ``Soli Deo Gloria'' ) wrote:
>
> > So what about fractional gee?
>
> We just don't know.
>
That's what I keep saying.

> > That's important because it would be nice
> > to know if they would get healthy on Mars after the trip or if they'd
> > get worse, and it would be nice to build something less than a one gee
> > ship to go to Mars in the first place. The Moon is the obvious place to
> > test this.
>
> Correct. The Moon is the right First Stop for several reasons, and this
> is one of them.
>
> And the Moon is close. That means help can be sent in a fairly timely
> fashion, and that devices can be controlled remotely from Earth or from
> orbit. The light travel time to the moon is about 1.3 seconds. Also
> close enough to hold decent conversations.
>
The Moon is a good place to setup a base first, I agree. 

-- 
"By the life of God, it doth even take my wits from me to think on it!
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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