Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Exactly. That was the point of the original post here -- that "benevolent" action
depends upon specific points of view.
Jayme Lynn Blaschke
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It appears that NASA believes that a relatively routine
Space Shuttle EVA is more important that the first attempt
to land a spacecraft on the surface on a planetoid:
Hey, NASA's got quite a bit more $$$ tied up in the EVA. You make the call.
Jayme Lynn Blaschke
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In the meantime, I'm thankful we can still look at the moon through telecopes
without seeing the golden arches of mcdonalds engraved somewhere on its surface. :)
Was it Pepsi or Coke or somebody who caught flack a few years back for studying the
feasability of beaming a laser logo onto the
Anyway, there's a larger issue: if Red Dwarfs are so great for creating life
and civilizations, then where are they all? I think the formula is
incomplete.
I don't think anyone's saying red dwarfs are "great" but rather that they could be
viable under teh right circumstances, which is
And, what if a martian microbe could somehow
exchange genes with a terrestial microbe?
Right now there's no reason to think that any extraterrestrial organisms even have
"genes" in the way we think. They could use protiens as a genetic conductor. Or have
some form or structure that is
In my ignorance, I seem to be missing something. Talking about the "risk of
cross-pollination": risk of what? "We are going to have to be very careful."
Careful of what? If Martian microbes contaminate Earth microbes or vice
versa, what might happen? Please help a layman understand. Thanks.
I don't argue that we need a human presence in space, be it space craft, space station
or planetary exploration. What everyone grumbles about here is that there is no
long-term strategic plan, and no fiscal discipline. Initial estimates for ANY Nasa
program are so obscenely cheap you'd think
Alright then... I have a science fiction question for you then, Jeremy...
since the two different DNA systems are totally unrecognizable to one
another, could a human 'digest' a nonterrestial plant? Imagine the
advertising:
Maybe, maybe not. There are LOTS of terrestrial plants that are
Not ice volcanism, but the spewing fire and lava version. If there is hope that tidal
heating produces thremal vents, might there also be true-blue volcano mountains on the
ocean floor? Or is the tidal heating not expected to produce that much energy? Could
massive volcanic eruptions be
SF writers do it this way: We skip over the ruminations of the Bruce Moomaws
of the world, ...So here it is: The material? Water. The location? Europa. The
customer? A species from a planet in dire need of water. The propulsion system? Why,
the
usual, of course.
Greg Bear pulled that trick
There are serious dangers with this approach in SF. To some extent, of
course, it HAS to be used -- but in any SF story, if you're going to make
flying leaps in scientific extrapolation,you have to try to make them
logically consistent, and limit any radical changes you make in known
scientific
Red Storm Rising was Clancy's first, and best book. It simply gathered
together available naval data, and put it together in the context of a war.
The book was so technical, so plausible, that the US military intelligence
services were at first disturbed, then delighted, with the attention
Well, it follows that any kind of moon or Mars base will have to be self-sufficient to
at least a limited extent. Any kind of base expansion will likely rely on sintering
regolith into bricks for construction, and processing local air and soils for oxygen
and water supplies (of course it
Just as a side note to everything else going on, I fired off emails today to my
Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and Phil Gramm, as well as my rep. Chet Edwards.
Hutchison is worse than useless, and makes Gramm look effective by comparison. But
even tho they're both Republican and Texan they've
Yeah, there were some great designs in that movie. The probe for one. The space suits
were much better than in the original. Jupiter looked fantastic. The Leonov itself I
found very realisitic -- what a furture manned deep space ship would look and function
like, rather than the luxury liner
Also Syd Mead, the designer in the later film, used a submarine design philosophy
when laying out the Leonov.
I remember seeing an interview where he discussed this. A very good approach to take.
Excellent verisimilitude.
What is really telling about how good the designs were is the fact
Science Fiction and the negative energy in space. (Lucent Technologies has
already demonstrated a way to use it.) What if... we learn to extract the
energy on a large scale and it is that energy in space that is causing the
universe of expand. Knowing how humans like to use energy, usually
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
No centrifuge on ISS now, so we can't test to see what
minimum gravity is necessary to prevent bone and muscle loss.
Wasn't one originally planned and designed for the ISS, but dropped early on because
of cost?
Jayme Lynn Blaschke
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THE
Years ago, more than i wish think of there was a sf book two stories in one
sort of thing. I don't remember the author, I'm sure Bruce and Jayme will.
The stories were Waldo and Magic Inc. Waldo was a person in space because of
health problems. It was one of the first stories I remember where
"Gail Roberta" [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 3/28/01 6:43 PM
Oh, well, Byrne, Blaschke, Co. have convinced me that selling ice to passing
starships probably won't work. Rats! I thought I was on to something, but maybe next
time. At least I'm keeping some of you entertained!
It might work, but
that kind of thing
all the time.
Do be careful with it, 007 -- it's the only one we have!
(Yes, I know, different Q. But I couldn't resist.)
Jayme Blaschke
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I have longed suspected that the the stars were intelligent. After all,
they've been around the longest and had the longest time to evolve. Of
course, how do you hold coherent thoughts in the equivalent of an atomic
bomb?
Actually, there's an excellent set of novels by Jack Williamson and
Am I alone in looking at these images and getting the creepy sensation that
I'm looking at something caused by LIVING processes? Yeah, yeah, I'm going
to be lectured about relying on our senses and not examining all the evidence
and jumping to conclusions and scientific method and waiting
Those are *obviously* sandworms, many hundreds, if not thousands of meters in length.
My GOD! It's full of SPICE! Hey, if anyone needed an economic incentive to travel to
Mars...
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