Oh no, say it ain't so!! Artemis Society goes whacky

c.f.,
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/europa_colonies_010606-1.html

Humans on Europa is an idea that is orders of magnitude dumber than the
idea of humans on Mars. I would have thought the Artemis Society would
know better than to float such ideas in public. I'm quite convinced there
will never be any good reason to send anything more than scientific probes
to Europa.

My preferred space industrialization and settlement schedule:

Near-term
* Moon and NEAs
* Maybe Phobos/Deimos

Mid-term
* Phobos/Deimos
* Main Belt asteroids
* Mars for recreation

Far-term
* Why should I care?

I just can't see Europa reasonably being on any list. Jupiter is bad news
for a variety of reasons, and Europa itself is a bigger gravity well than
our Moon. Yikes!

Ron Menich