XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
   From: invalid@invalid.com   
      
   On 10/16/2016 7:17 PM, Fred J. McCall wrote:   
   > jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
   >   
   >> In sci.physics Jeff Findley  wrote:   
   >>> In article , jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com   
   >>> says...   
   >>>>   
      
   >>>> Yes, just keep sending reactors until you have enough power, however   
   >>>> that is not going to be cheap.   
   >>>   
   >>> Well, we've moved from "not possible" to "possible but not cheap".   
   >>> Progress!   
   >>>   
   >>> Jeff   
   >>   
   >> Who said "not possible"?   
   >>   
   >> It certainly wasn't me.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Yet that's the attitude everyone hears you having,   
      
   you do not speak for everyone, you speak to yourself.   
      
   >   
   >>   
   >> The closest thing to "not possible" I've said is that the following   
   >> are unknowns on Mars.   
   >>   
   >> If water is available in quantity anywhere other than the poles.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Not an unknown.  We know   
   >.there are huge subsurface ice deposits   
   > elsewhere than the poles.   
      
   no, you dont know that.  it is only conjecture, not known.   
      
   >   
   >>   
   >> If there are concentrated usefull mineral deposits in general and   
   >>   
   >   
   > Not an unknown.  We know there's hematite and other iron ores.   
      
   Cite?  where is your hematite mine ?   
      
   iron makes the planet red, but it is not know of any concentrated   
   mineral deposits.   
      
   >   
   >>   
   >> concentrated calcium deposits in particular as all the concentrated   
   >> calcium deposits on Earth are the result of biology.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Not an unknown.  Calcium concentrations and minerals such as dolomite   
   > and marble are one of the indications on Mars that there was surface   
   > water.   
      
   Cite ?   
      
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