Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:16:43 01/14/04
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On January 14, 2004 at 09:42:09, Tony Werten wrote: >On January 14, 2004 at 09:29:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 14, 2004 at 09:04:50, Tony Werten wrote: >> >>>On January 14, 2004 at 06:03:25, Sune Fischer wrote: >>> >>>>On January 14, 2004 at 01:51:11, Tony Werten wrote: >>>> >>>>>On January 13, 2004 at 10:20:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On January 12, 2004 at 19:46:44, Amir Ban wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>On January 10, 2004 at 16:24:59, Jim Bodkins wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>... oh, and we do Mars missions. :) >>>>>>> >>>>>>>It's lucky that Mars is not in Europe or you'd never go there. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Just make sure that the Mars mission is scheduled for less than a week and >>>>>>>doesn't coincide with a major holiday. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Amir >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>OR maybe do it _remotely_ so that we don't have to "go there" at all? >>>>>> >>>>>>Hint: Mars mission has _no_ people on mars. :) They are using this new- >>>>>>fangled idea called remote data transmission... >>>>>> >>>>>>hmmm... >>>>>> >>>>>>Perhaps a bad analogy? :) >>>>> >>>>>If I understood your president correctly, the ultimate goal is for a person to >>>>>actually be there. It seems he values the being there in person much higher than >>>>>being there remote. >>>> >>>>It's going to get incredibly expensive and risky to send _everybody_ to Mars, >>>>not to mention time consuming and troublesome. >>> >>>Everybody, yes. But not everybody has been there remote. The ones who have been >>>there remote seem to think it's important to be there in person. >>> >> >>"think it is important to be there in person." >> >>"were really there remotely because of the cost and time" >> >>Think about it. >> >>What you want to do, and what you _can_ do are not always the same thing. >> >>Same with the ECCC events.... >> >> >>>> >>>>Perhaps what we need is a new president to make the _right_ decisions? >>> >>>Maybe you should check up on your local politics. It could be you have a >>>different president. >> >>Not sure what that means. We've had the same president for 3+ years >>now, most likely we will have the same president for the next 4+ years as >>well... > >But it's probably not the same one Sune has, yet he talked about "we". > >Tony > >> I assumed "Bush" since he is the one that is laying out the new NASA goal of a manned lunar station and a mission to Mars over the next 20 years... I suppose it _could_ have been a non-US president, of course... but since we stuck the current Mars rover on the surface of Mars, plus the second one due to arrive this month, it seems to be a US topic... >> >>> >>>Tony >>> >>>> >>>>>Good analogy I think :) >>>> >>>>Hmm, so so :) >>>> >>>>-S. >>>>>Tony
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