Mars A Waste Of Money

> Hi-Read this on page A-18 of the January 22-Globe And
> Mail newspaper:Should people go ? What might the first
> Humans do on Mars ? Not much says Norman Sleep,a
> Planetary Scientist and Geophysicist at Stanford
> University,other than simply keep themselves alive
> while trying to stay out of the way of robotic
> scientific missions.He told the San Francisco
> Chronicle that the need to send a Human to Mars is
> about as pressing as the need to train a midget to
> squeeze down into an oil well to see what is down
> there,rather than sending instruments tethered to
> data recorders on the surface....
> And anyway,how is going to Mars going to help us to
> build Space Colonies as described in Dr.Gerard
> O'Neill's book "The High Frontier" ?? I also wonder
> if even half the People on this Yahoo Group have
> read this book ?? If not,I urge you to send $10.00 US
> to:The Space Studies Institute,P.O.Box 82,
> Princeton,NJ 08542,United States
> ask for the 1989 paperback edition of
> - The High Frontier-
> Space Colnies are possible and would alleviate many
> probems suffered by many People on the Planet Earth,
> Unemployment,Malnutrition,Starvation,Homelesssness,
> Poverty,Overpopulation,Pollution.Please read
> book.Cordially,John Hadden(jfhadden@...

That hard to read, if I must say so. Did the "Globe and Mail" article
mention "The High Frontier" at el.? Probaly not :(.

I don't have advesite "The High Frontier." It like preching to the
chior.