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From: Robert Crawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: Microoganisms and Phylogeny
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>> From: Bruce Moomaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: Icepick Europa Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: 2/23/2001 3:58:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: Microoganisms and Phylogeny
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>> And unmanned rendezvous and docking, over the past few years, has been
>> rapidly evolving technologically -- Japan just managed it several times
>with
>> a small craft (even given severe problems due to a thruster failure), and
>a
>> Shuttle mission next year is supposed to release two military
>> microsatellites weighing just a few kg, one of which will repeatedly
>> rendezvous and dock with the other one from a range of several km!
(Also,
>> unmanned rendezvous and docking with a simulated Mars sample container --
>> carried out by a spacecraft weighing only about 20 kg -- is one of the
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>> new candidate technologies that may be tested in Earth orbit by the
>upcoming
>> Deep Space-6. After all, the current Mars sample-return mission already
>> calls for such rendezvous and docking to be carried out in MARS orbit --
>> using U.S. equipment mounted on that French orbiter -- and so it will
have
>> to be developed in any case.)
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>> Bruce Moomaw
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>Is anyone else a tad bit tickled over the whole unmanned thing from the
>people who are most remembered for the exact opposite tactic on Pearl
>Harbor for a much less valuable cause?
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I don't quite get this. Are you saying that the U.S. thought in the Forties
that the ships on Pearl Harbor should somehow be unmanned? And are you
saying that winning World War II was a "much less valuable cause" than
immediately establishing whether there's life on Mars? If the Allies had
lost World War II, it can be argued that there wouldn't have been much
intelligent life on EARTH.
Bruce Moomaw
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