In a message dated 7/30/00 8:39:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
retroman@turbont.net writes:
<< I presume that one of Zubrins frustrations with the 'nano-santa' premise
is that it breeds an atmosphere of complacency, where anything hard to
do now in space will be put off until the nanites can do it for us. Such
an attitude can derail and end manned exploration once and for all, for
starters. What this attitude will lead to in the future as well is for
it to devolve from acceptance of using robot probes, to merely
acceptance of remote observation by telescope, as people get more fat
and happy on their couches. >>
I wonder if fat and happy people would like to explore the surface of mars,
and that the disatisfied people never would?
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