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# 670 byrabrooks@... on Nov. 16, 2004, 3:26 a.m.
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--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Combs, Mike"
> From: Richard [mailto:rabrooks@g...]
>
> > > What riches are there to be made on Mars? None.
> > >
> > All right, I've heard enough. You say None. Prove it.
>
> You're asking him to prove a negative, which is notoriously difficult.
> It's up to the Mars enthusiast to at least point to a somewhat plausible
> positive.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Combs

Quite right. But people who use words like all and none annoy me.

I'm not a Mars enthusiast.

I merely have been opposing absolutist statements.

After we been on Mars for about fifty years, We should have some
answers. A pity I won't be here to see it. But somehow living to 113
seems unduly optimistic.

Rick Brooks