Re: starship-design: One way (again...)

[TLG.van.der.Linden@tip.nl (Timothy van der Linden)]

Hi Isaac,

>>>That wouldn't be an extremely pressing reason to go, unless that
>>>life included intelligent life which are developing or have
>>>developed their own interstellar travel capability.
>>
>>Well, if that doesn't make the public crazy enough to donate a huge amount
>>of money, then what does?
>
>I hope it would be enough to "find" life on another planet, but...
>...apparently it's not enough of a reason to go even to Mars.

Going to Mars is about searching for life. For the public whom reacts
according to "seeing is believing" that is completely true from  knowing
something about chances of something to be true. (Think about how people
react to an accident happening to them compared to them knowing that
accidents happen.)
Besides this Mars is not about intelligent life, which was an essential of
the above paragraph (>>>)

Timothy