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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Spencer View Post
    Wonder what their position would be on that.
    In that sense, weightlessness would have great theological problems which need to be solved by direct clerical experience.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Splinter View Post
    Anyway, NASA's budget is only 1% of US military/defence/war on terra spending and I like the idea of keeping scientists in jobs. It's not like they are highly paid, anyway.
    Although I was not a direct NASA employee, during the late 80s my pittance of a salary was paid by NASA and it was tough going in an expensive Southern Californian economy. In the end I had to send SWMBO out to work for $6/hr to make ends meet.

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    Personally i think this is just awesome. I wish i was 20 yrs younger i'd have my hand up in a second. It would be 1 hell of a challenge & an amazing adventure. I think the cue to go would be huge. I beleive it is essential that the human race begins to expand out from our home Earth. We are at our best (and worst at times) when we are exploring & expanding. There are limited resources & limited space on Earth, we are already pushing the limits of this planet as it is - we as a people need to push out for our own survival. Plus the things we could learn from such an undertaking is enormous, & definitely worth the cost.

    Space: the final frontier........

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Spencer View Post
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    The idea is to build space craft for a one-way mission and have everything needed to sustain humans for one hundred years.
    Sounds like a premise of any of the sci-fi movies where people go bonkers and start killing each other off. Could be NASA's idea of reality TV.
    I make things, I just take a long time.

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    In some ways I pity the poor bloody universe if it does happen. Watched Kevin Mcleod in the slums of Mumbai last night and this morning I read that clerics in Saudi Arabia have issued a fatwa against women working on checkouts - apparently because they would mix with men unrelated to them.
    The idea is great but only if we could leave our mistakes and stupidities behind.
    Cheers,
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    That's why I suggested shipping out all religious types.
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    I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.


    Regards, Woodwould.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Woodwould View Post
    That's why I suggested shipping out all religious types.
    That makes more sense. Send all our stupidities and mistakes away and we'll stay. Pity any poor extra-terrestrial though. However, I did read an SF story where they crucified the missionary to see if he would come back!
    Cheers,
    Jim

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