Re: Lunacy from Brussels

Pooh Bear wrote:

Rich Grise wrote:


On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:12:42 +0100, Pooh Bear wrote:


How much food and water would be required to sustain life for the
duration of an interplanetary trip ? I'll bet it would make such a
venture prohibitive.

Ever heard of "plants"? 


Ever seen Silent Running ?

When we can make spacecraft the size of ocean liners you may have a
point. I'd like to know how many ppl they could support though. Probably
not a lot.

We could do it quite rapidly if the need arose.
Project Orion.
In the early 1960s Kennedy rejected the plan put before him by the US military for a spacegoing battleship weighing thousands of tonnes with a crew of 200.

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