From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 15:01:09 MST
MMB noted:
<<A lot of the NASA pork goes to coastal locations, or ones within spitting
distance of some coastline.
This has been of-note since the mid-1970s.>>
Humankind doesn't have an enormous amount of experience performing space
exploration. For the most part, I maintain, space enthusiasts would like
human exploitation and colonization of the solar system. The clincher is, by
the the Wired author, Graham S. Hawkes, is what "pays off" the most, and
sooner. He is doubtful of a successful Mars or Lunar exploration, anytime
soon.
Relatedly, I surely do NOT see any chance for some wonderous, Bubble-enclosed
city on the ocean floor anytime soon, either. The closest thing we have to
ocean explotation thought is oil, natural gas, and the possibility of gas
hydrates. Gas hydrate explotation might be absolutely necessary, if it looks
as a means to PREVENT precipitious release of methane, far more damaging then
mere COČ . The whole thing seems to be cost, or appearence of some kind of
payback, or benefit. This benefit may be military, or cash on the
barrel-head, or a psychological boost (mission to mars?).
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