New Member Forum: Spacesettlers
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# 679 bycapcartoonist@... on Nov. 16, 2004, 10:55 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
"victoriatangoman" wrote:
It might. I read somewhere that they no longer believe it's going to take
as long as 2 years to get to Mars; we might be able to do it in 6 to 8
months. If I get a chance, I'll see if I can find some verification for
this.
Offhand, I agree with you, but one never knows. Five hundred years from now
it might just make sense to base a civilization on Mars for whatever reason.
There was a novel, "Memory of Whiteness" (I forget the author), in which
Mars had temporarily -- temporarily, mind you -- become the major trade
nexus of the solar system due to the positions of the planets and major
asteroids at the time.