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On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 10:41 AM, Brad Walsh wrote:

> A colony of IQ 130's I can sort of see, but a colony of the WISE I
> would
> endorse wholeheartedly.

Wisedom seems to come with age. A colony of the wise might well not be
able to produce kids, making it rather short lived.

The International Space Station (ISS) most important legacy may be
jump-starting space tourism. Consider: the first space tourist, Dennis
Tito, was supposed to go to the Soviet era Mir space station. Under
pressure from NASA, Russia de-orbited the Mir which resulted in Mr.
Tito going to the ISS instead. Now the Mir was old, smelly, crowded and
probably not all that nice. The ISS was brand new, shinny, much more
roomy, etc. Mr. Tito came back to Earth with glowing accounts of how
great space is. Would his experience have been as good on Mir?

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

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