XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
   From: jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca   
      
   On 2016-10-14 14:09, Fred J. McCall wrote:   
      
   >>If we had dilithium reactors, warp drive, replicators, and transporters   
   >>the problem would be trivial.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Do you insist the effort for anything you do must be 'trivial'?   
      
      
   Actually yes. Current discussions are for projects that would be   
   launched now (the project) with early actual launches to Mars in a few   
   years. (aka: as agressive if not more than sending a man on the moon   
   within 7 years of announcement).   
      
   And this means using tech that is basically available today with only a   
   need to fine tune and scale it up. (eg: very large composite tanks).   
   We're not talking about di-lithium crystals, and matter/anti-matter   
   engines which don't exist yet. So in many wys, what is being attempted   
   now must be "trivial" in that sense: existing tech.   
      
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