On 7 April 2014 15:47, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Liz, > > Why is there no interest in developing tech to get us off the planet? Why > is there a retreat into a bunker mentality? > > I wouldn't say there is no interest - but getting anyone or anything off the planet isn't easy, to quote Robert Heinlein when you reach low Earth orbit you're half way to anywhere in the solar system, which indicates how hard it is to get into even LEO. We haven't got the capability to get large amounts of mass into space, nor have we got the ability to survive outside the biosphere in great numbers and for long perionds. (We really should have had a self-sufficient Moon colony by now, dammit...) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
