On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:24:23 -0700, Rich S. wrote:

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Well, yabut, not everyone wants to go into space. Sure it's grand
what he's doing and he's being wonderfully unique about his approach,
but it's freakishly expensive to do and horrifyingly dangerous.

I wish he'd come back down to earth and help reduce the cost of
ordinary fixed wing flying, instead of spending millions on something
that incredibly few people will benefit from.

Corky............

Unless you can figger out some way to keep humans from breeding like
lemmings,

Rich people have fewer kids, in general. In Europe our population is
falling through the floor. France even pays people to have children, and I
think Italy does too.

the only other alternative for survival is more real estate.
"Incredibly few people"? This is the most important thing for the future of
us ALL.

I agree, but for slightly different reasons. Consider the amount of
resources it would take to move someone from earth to (say) Mars. It will
be a long time before we can do this using less resources than it would
take to let them and their progeny live out their lives on the Earth. I
don't see that it figures as a solution to overpopulation.

Whenever I turn on the TV I see stories about someone walking to the pole
alone; walking to the pole unsupported; walking to both poles; walking to
the poles backwards; mountain biking to the poles... We're running out of
original challenges; new places to explore - we need to go into space.

AC