"Muzz" , in a broken top-posting which I have
corrected, wrote:

:"Paul F. Dietz" wrote in message
...
: Fred J. McCall wrote:
:
: Which essentially says that it will never happen, Henry, since you
: have to start going there before there is an incentive to lower the
: cost of going there.
:
: Nonsense. Many many things have become affordable because
: of advances not specifically directed at those things.
:
:How many years was it after Chris Columbus sailed the ocean blue
:to the new world before Europe finally started to colonize?

Less than three years.

In point of fact, Columbus served as Royal Governor of the colony at
the site of what is now Santo Domingo until 1499.

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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
--George Bernard Shaw