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1000 years from now
Wouldn't it be great to be around 1000 years from now?
Participating in a tour of Mars visiting all the succesful landing sites. Also it would be interesting to visit the failed landing sites. I'd love to know what happened to some of those landers. Will these sites be kept free of human contact? I can just see a group of American tourists clambering all over the Sojourner while their friends join the queue for the local McDonalds ;o) -- Gareth Slee http://www.sleefamily.com |
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On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 18:45:23 -0000, "Gareth Slee"
wrote: Wouldn't it be great to be around 1000 years from now? Well if you begin in the 50s and go through the 60s, 70,s and so on and then extrapolate out a thousand years we'll probably be spending half the national GNP to loft a ten pound satellite and the booster will be assembled one atom at a time, be made of diamond and iridium, and will take two hundred years to go from drawing board to launch. |
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Well if you begin in the 50s and go through the 60s, 70,s and so on and then extrapolate out a thousand years we'll probably be spending half the national GNP to loft a ten pound satellite and the booster will be assembled one atom at a time, be made of diamond and iridium, Sad that was my exact thoughts too |
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On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 21:39:19 GMT, Scott Ferrin wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 18:45:23 -0000, "Gareth Slee" wrote: Wouldn't it be great to be around 1000 years from now? Well if you begin in the 50s and go through the 60s, 70,s and so on and then extrapolate out a thousand years we'll probably be spending half the national GNP to loft a ten pound satellite and the booster will be assembled one atom at a time, be made of diamond and iridium, and will take two hundred years to go from drawing board to launch. On the bright side, failures would be very infrequent... Dale |
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Scott Ferrin wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 18:45:23 -0000, "Gareth Slee" wrote: Wouldn't it be great to be around 1000 years from now? Well if you begin in the 50s and go through the 60s, 70,s and so on and then extrapolate out a thousand years we'll probably be spending half the national GNP to loft a ten pound satellite... Actaully. what's mroe likely is that we'll be spending 5000% of the GDP annually on Social Security and Welfare programs. The Haitians will be putting more into orbit than the US. Oh... wait. *1000* years. I thought it was *100* years. In *that* case... by that point, there will be no launches from Earth to orbit, as the Greens will have taken over the world, and nothing larger than a cockroach will be left alive on the planetary surface. -- Scott Lowther, Engineer Remove the obvious (capitalized) anti-spam gibberish from the reply-to e-mail address |
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"Hallerb" wrote in message
... Sad that was my exact thoughts too I'm more interested in your exact research on NASA management prior to Feb 1, 2003. -- If you have had problems with Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC), please contact shredder at bellsouth dot net. There may be a class-action lawsuit in the works. |
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On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 12:02:57 -0500, "Scott Hedrick"
wrote: "Hallerb" wrote in message ... Sad that was my exact thoughts too I'm more interested in your exact research on NASA management prior to Feb 1, 2003. So what are you implying? That since management changed we're going to go back to the good old days of the sixties where we actually got things done? Or are you saying that things are going to slow down even more (if that's possible)? |
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