Cato speculate?

On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 09:10 PM, jdr7181 wrote:

> What other scientific disciplines will be
> positively affected by the development of space?

Astronomy, materials science, planetary science, Earth studies, and
others.

> And how will
> technological advances affect science in space?

Enable a lot of stuff.

The dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid because they weren't
space-faring. It's almost as if Gaia then thought "Well, dinosaurs
worked pretty well, but space-faring is necessary. Maybe I'll should
try mammals this time." Humanity is now developing systems to detect
and deflect asteroids, and could build orbital space colonies to spread
beyond Earth to insure life would survive a planetary catastrophe.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

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