: Sea Wasp
: If you assume each one starts with IDENTICAL equipment -- and that
: the equipment in both cases is optimized for the Moon -- then hell
: yeah, the Mars group is screwed.
: If you assume they each start out with optimal equipment for the
: mission in question, they should be roughly equal.

Equally unscrewed, perhaps so. Equally bankrupt, I very much doubt.
There is some vigorous handwaving in the "and then they make air
and fuel from easily available martian household supplies", among
other issues that provoke my skepticism.

( I note, I'm still pending your recommendatin of Zubrin's "Case for Mars",
so my skepticism is conditional/tenative )


Wayne Throop http://sheol.org/throopw