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Re: (Movie) Mission to Mars
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Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:23:15 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.comNOSPAM
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Arguably, we went to the moon about 10 years too early using the man in
a can technology. DynaSoar would have been a much better way to go and
we'd now have a big industrial infrastructure in LEO and commercial
flights from NY to Tokyo in 5 hours or less, as well as an active moon
base that was a commercial success and be well on our way to colonizing
Mars.
Instead of a slow fire building to an inferno we shot off a firecracker
and have less to show for it.
That's the thesis of a lot of near future novels that I enjoy, anyway.
One I'm reading now is Firestar, which blends education into the mix
rather nicely.
Dave Schuler wrote:
>
> In lugnet.space, John J. Ladasky, Jr. writes:
> > The United States was in a race with the Soviet Union for bragging rights.
> > The USA landed on the Moon first, thereby winning the pi**ing contest. The
> > USSR bowed out of any further space competitions (in fact, claiming that a
> > manned moon landing was never one of their goals!), thereby taking away the
> > Americans' will to strive for more. We humans have this problem -- it's not
> > as much fun to achieve something, if you're not simultaneously BEATING
> > someone.
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> Carl Sagan observed in an interview about 10 years ago that the "Space Race"
> was over, and that the U.S. had lost. In the grand scheme, the moon landing,
> though great propaganda, was less significant than the long-term manned
> missions of the U.S.S.R.
>
> Dave!
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