jeannot
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Joined: Jan. 2006
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| Quote | | Consider the choices for the mass of the population... You can spend your money on bread and circuses until the end comes and you die horribly, or we can offer you the option of spending the short remainder of your life with privation to make possible the escape of a select few, with at least less bread and fewer circuses to amuse you before you die horribly. Take your pick... |
I don’t think the mass population will be given this choice. And even so, I’m convinced it’ll choose your second option.
Anyway, space colonization won’t begin abruptly. We spend billions of cash so a couple of people go to Mars. Aren’t there research projects exploring possibilities for the development of new propulsion techniques? Unless I’m mistaken, nothing profitable will be done on Mars that can’t be done here for less cost. This isn’t only fundamental research, but a first step towards space colonization. That’s what NASA’s engineers and directors basically say on TV. And I really don’t think their project is motivated by the economic profit that their grand-grand-grand children may get.
And the mass population would buy more bread and circuses with those billions spend in space exploration.
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