"Mike Combs" wrote in message ...
"Hop David" wrote

JimO wrote:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion...14-oberg_x.htm

By James Oberg

I want USA Today to publish this on their front page.

Hear, hear. What I'm about to say is heresy in much of the space advocacy
community, but I think asteroids have more to do with our future in space
than does Mars.

My choice of destinations would be:

1. NEOs
2. Moon
a distant
3. Mars

1. or 2. should give us space access and the capability to manage
Asteroid threats - and to go to Mars with real purpose.
3. Will give us uninterrupted live coverage of a couple of guys on a
strange landscape.


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Regards,
Mike Combs
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We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the
best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the
Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely.
Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is
"somewhere else entirely."

Gerard O'Neill - "The High Frontier"