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Re: Re: starship-design: The Way ahead & Bugs



KellySt@aol.com wrote:
>
> 
> In a message dated 10/18/98 10:12:28 AM, rmarlin@network-one.com
wrote:
> 
> >> > IF WE DO MAKE THE SHIP RETURN CAPABLE,
> >> > I DON'T THINK WE'D SEE IT AGAIN!!!
> >> >
> >
> >I also agree. Interstellar travel is very taxing on resources, and
I don't
> think
> >it is reasonable to send a two-way expedition. There is
acceleration and
> >deceleration, and then another acceleration and deceleration. If
you are
> sending
> >people to another star, why just scout and then return them at over
twice the
> >cost and complexity, when you can just send colonists on a one-way
mission?
> 
> You miss the point.  We can't send colonists.  To do that we would
need a
> selfsustaining mini civilization which is WAY beyond anything we
could or
> would do.  It would technically be virtually impossible, at least
requireing a
> population tens to hundreds of times larger.
> 
> The debate isn't between sending a scouting mission or sending a
colony.  The
> debate is between sending a say 8 year survey mission and returning
them.  Or
> sending a 8 year survey mission and leaving them there to die.
About 28 years! Woah, you actually have to get an ecosystem working if
you wanna have food. Oh, well anyone's got other ideas, than this??
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