Smells Like Teen Spirit

On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 10:32 AM, Brad Walsh wrote:

> I tend to agree that the various space advocacy groups are too
> fractured,
> and their disunity doesn't serve their various causes. I expect just
> about
> everybody would agree with that, even the members of these groups.

The one thing everybody needs, though, is better transportation. Every
single space project is severely limited by inadequate transportation,
especially Earth to Orbit. Perhaps this is an issue everyone could
unite behind.

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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