Rand Simberg wrote:
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:00:42 +0100, in a place far, far away, jacob
navia made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:


The technology for human space travel is just not there. Look at the
best humans can manage now: The ISS. It is a few hundred Km away, and
it is still plagued by a lot of problems, it has no closed system
it needs supplies from earth. etc.

It's quite stupid to infer that the ISS is the best humans can manage
now.

It is the best humans can do now because it exists. Other things can
be maybe better but they have a big problem... they do not exist.

Speculating what humans could do is a useful activity, but it is just
speculation.



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