Hurrah for Hawking

>
> Depend on how you define "space habitat". Hawking seems to
proceed >from
> the same planet-bound assumptions as nearly everybody else, i.e.
>bases
> on the moon, colonies on Mars, then searching other solar systems
>for a
> planet as nice as Earth.
>

Hi Mike,

At least what Hawking says is a first step. "Get out of the planet"
should be our lemma. Now, planetary chauvinism is another thing.
I'll take time for mankind to realize is easier to live in space
rather than the surfaces of allien planets.

For more than a century people has confussed space colonization with
planetary conquests. It is not easy to change that paradigma, but
time will come when people realize it.

Omar