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RE: starship-design: Re: Why go to the stars? - Lee
Timothy,
Yes, I understood what you were getting at. There are probably a great many
possible reasons for different groups to choose to go to the stars (whether or
not they can get back).
Lee
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From: Timothy van der Linden [SMTP:TLG.van.der.Linden@tip.nl]
Sent: Friday, July 04, 1997 11:11 AM
To: starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu
Subject: starship-design: Re: Why go to the stars? - Lee
I understood it was an example (I wonder whether other more rational groups
could collect that much money though).
I believe your main point was to say that going to the stars was needed to
get freedom. I tried to explain, why I thought that going to the stars to
get freedom seemed to be the most expensive option of several others.
(Eg. building a large spacestation or going to Mars may do the same)
After that I tried to give another reason for going to the stars, namely to
get a different worldview and to get into a hard environment (from where you
can't easely escape). My guess was that the latter two may spark development
and inventiveness.
Timothy
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