A SPACE IN TIME "In the evenings, when my particular piece of Earth has turned away from the Sun, and is exposed instead to the rest of the cosmos, I sit in front of a keyboard, log on, and seek out the windows that look down at the planets and out at the stars." In 2002, Michael Benson described
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This article is also available on the web at: http://www.spacetoday.net/getsummary.php?id=2121 .Reports: Bush space policy announcement expected next weekUpdated: Thu, Jan 8 8:49 PM ET (0149 GMT)Originally Posted: Thu, Jan 8 6:52 PM ET (23
1) WE are not "Back on Mars", a robotic probe is there, taking
pictures and doing pre-planned experiments on our behalf;
2) As Michael has already explained, it will take a lot of effort to
terraform a planet. The only aspect he has wrong is the time scale,
and the economic scale, not to men
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(BQuite a few chuckles in this Slate article (see below). I especially liked Lowell
(BWood's and Robert Zubrin's clueless invocation of some human "manifest destiny" of
(Beventual Mars settlement. Lowell Wood has always been an incorrigible flamer --
(Bduring the Star Wars debates
