President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond

Greetings Andrew,

"I'm not opposed to research on self replicating
systems, in fact I would like to see more of it. What
I oppose is putting such a difficult task in the
critical path for lunar exploration."

We are in full agreement in this aspect. Would you
not also agree that NASA has taken on these difficult
tasks in the critical path to putting humans in space

1) Solving bone/muscle loss in low gravity
environments by medication.
2) Getting hundreds of billions in funding for a human
base on the Moon/Mars.
3) Providing adequate radiation shielding for long
term exposure.
4) Overcomming monumental space station cost overruns.
5) Loosing the status of being the respected innovator
of solutions.

- Thor