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Re: RE: RE: Re: starship-design: One way (again...)
In a message dated 12/10/97 2:24:39 PM, david@actionworld.com wrote:
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>> From: Kelly St[SMTP:KellySt@aol.com]
>> Subject: Re: RE: Re: starship-design: One way (again...)
>>
>> flights to other stars might be fundable.) But beyond that credible
>> reasons
>> are near nil.
>>
>Right. In the original concept for this design group, we were assuming
>some extremely pressing reason-to-go had come up. I think the
>assumption was the remote detection of life-bearing planets in the
>target system, with a potential mission receiving large amounts of
>popular support.
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>David Levine
Oh, yeah. I forgot.
That actually might work. A few people at NASA have mentioned the publics
interest in space would be much stronger if we found something like cannals on
Mars and a lost civilization, or wild life racing through a swampy Venus or
something.
Kelly