Re: Phobos colonization

2001-03-14 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 3/13/2001 4:58:43 PM Alaskan Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Not necessarily -- for, as I've said before, I think there's an ironic > Catch-22 where human exploration of Mars is concerned. The only way you'll > convince anyone for a very long time to come to fun

Re: Phobos colonization

2001-03-13 Thread Bruce Moomaw
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 4:55 PM Subject: Re: Phobos colonization > >Pardon me, but what's the point of going all the way to Mars, only to fool >

Re: Phobos colonization

2001-03-13 Thread JHByrne
Pardon me, but what's the point of going all the way to Mars, only to fool around with a little rock orbiting the big prize? It seems to me that practical, economic sense, and a sense of what is politically expedient would rule out setting down on an isolated rock, when it would be simply eas

Re: Phobos colonization

2001-03-13 Thread Jayme Blaschke
>>>One more thought: Once in a great while the SF writers propose that the problem is solved by NOT going back to Earth, or any other gravity, for that matter. In short, just stay in the weightless environment. In about ten seconds, one can think of a whole host of consequences, not all of them "

Re: Phobos colonization

2001-03-13 Thread Jayme Blaschke
>>> First, does anybody know if there's a listserv similar to this one, having to do >with colonizing, or at least sending probes to, Phobos? No, I don't know of any. And really, I can't afford to join anymore groups -- the cost to my time going through all the messages I get each day from

Re: Phobos colonization

2001-03-13 Thread Marcus Robertsson
> > I have some short questions... First, does anybody know if there's a listserv >similar to this one, having to do with colonizing, or at least sending probes to, >Phobos? And relatedly -- what are considered the most serious MEDICAL, BIOLOGICAL >obstacles to human colonization of space?

Re: Phobos colonization

2001-03-12 Thread Bruce Moomaw
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, March 12, 2001 7:43 PM Subject: Re: Phobos colonization > >In a message dated 3/12/2001 5:25:56 PM Alaskan Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wri

Re: Phobos colonization

2001-03-12 Thread Gail & Roberta
nt: Monday, March 12, 2001 7:40 PM Subject: Re: Phobos colonization > > In a message dated 3/12/2001 5:25:56 PM Alaskan Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I have some short questions... First, does anybody know if there's a > > listserv similar to th

Re: Phobos colonization

2001-03-12 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 3/12/2001 5:25:56 PM Alaskan Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have some short questions... First, does anybody know if there's a > listserv similar to this one, having to do with colonizing, or at least > sending probes to, Phobos? And relatedly -- what are c

Phobos colonization

2001-03-12 Thread Ed C Sugrue
I have some short questions... First, does anybody know if there's a listserv similar to this one, having to do with colonizing, or at least sending probes to, Phobos? And relatedly -- what are considered the most serious MEDICAL, BIOLOGICAL obstacles to human colonization of space? Things