Skip the Preliminaries - Go for the Whole Shootin' Match
From: Nomen Nescio (nobody_at_dizum.com)
Date: 02/03/05
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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 01:10:05 +0100 (CET)
We are wasting men and resources fooling around in low Earth orbit. Even a
die-hard space enthusiast can't get excited anymore when we shoot men up
250 miles and watch them go 'round and 'round. Sorry, but its the truth.
In the movie, When Worlds Collide, we went from nothing to an
interplanetary rocket ship in one quick project in less than a year.
That's the way it should be here and now.
We should drop everything and start building a Mars Rocket to take men
there to establish a new colony. If we fail and lose a few rockets before
we achieve success, its absolutely no worse than what we're doing now,
losing a few Space Shuttles now and then. The difference is the payoff.
Mars is a big payoff and will restore our prowness in the eyes of the whole
world. We cannot get that benefit with Shuttles, the ISS, or even another
Moon Shot. I say we have a nation-wide referendum and vote on my proposal
in an exercise in pure democracy. Its what the President would want, I'm
sure.
Its doable and doable with off-the-shelf technology, so what are we waiting
for?
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