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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] I hate the people who say "we've got too much to deal with down here first!" There will [b][i]ALWAYS[/i][/b] be too much to deal with down here. If we wait until we have everything handled on Earth, we're going to be waiting until we either kill ourselves, destroy the entire ecosphere, or the sun blows up. There will always be reasons why not. People who let the reasons why not decide for them will never accomplish a goddamn thing. The people who said the Earth was flat stayed behind in Eurasia. We have no idea who they were. But we remember the Polynesians, the Portugese, the Phoenicians, the Norsemen -- and some highly-celebrated individuals like Columbus, Eriksson, and Magellan. The people who have opposed advances in aviation right from the very concept of airplanes themselves have been utterly forgotten. But we remember the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh, and Chuck Yeager. Our world would be a damn sight different if Columbus and those guys had stayed home, or if the Wrights and people like them had decided only birds should fly. How much of what we take for granted and depend on is due to people daring in the face of all the reasons why not? How much of what we have and depend on today was spawned from the Space Race of the '60s? How much more will we get out of this? I can't even begin to speculate the advances in materials and construction technology. And I have the merest inkling of what's possible out of studying the long-term effects of microgravity and the ways to combat them. Like Heinlein said in Starship Troopers -- the race that doesn't expand and conquer will get wiped out by the race that does. Nature's a bitch that way. --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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