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Re: Mars Rovers
Well Al, I'll agree with you partly: there's even been a conscious attempt to avoid the interesting landing sites because the fragile little landers wouldn't survive or might get stuck in a boulder field. Well, tiny steps... In prep for the activity in the thread on Biosphere 3, maybe it would be interesting to send an automated M1 Abrams there. The space science folks are always complaining about "how much" gets spent on manned space flight, how about a solid gold elephant of their own? Why not?
At any rate I'd rather spend it on any of these projects than padding oil executives 19th hole martini funds. They just gotta start thinking bigger... I'd like to skip Mars and start working on those Jovian and Saturnian moons.... If you wanna mess with Mars though, how's about starting to drive lots of comets into its surface? It would give us practice in diverting them and saving ourselves from a dino-like exeunt, and in a few thousand years, there'd be more water and atmosphere there for us to start colonizing it...
Cheers,
Buffy
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