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)

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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.

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

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

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.


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"Hallerb" wrote in message
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Sad that was my exact thoughts too

I'm more interested in your exact research on NASA management prior to Feb
1, 2003.
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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)?