XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
   From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   Jeff Findley  wrote:   
      
   >In article , invalid@invalid.com says...   
   >>   
   >> >> isn't that a great pix of Hiellary, your leader. [ugh]   
   >> >>   
   >> >> She has already re-purposed the funding for the   
   >> >> "US Occupation of Planet Mars"   
   >> >> to her remodel of the "White House" into the "White Castle" with Throne   
   >> >   
   >> > You really are being a ass aren't you?   
   >> >   
   >> > Jeff   
   >> >   
   >>   
   >> well you're abrasive asshole, it is what you do, but that is expected as   
   >> you have little scientific/engineering facts to contribute.   
   >   
   >LOL, you mean like the cites provided that you've largely ignored?   
   >   
      
   Well, he doesn't like the issues clouded with facts.   
      
   >   
   >> your "Occupy Mars" idiocy is in with the Smoke-um Dope-um crowd.   
   >   
   >Wrong crowd.  I have an aerospace engineering degree and don't tend to   
   >hang out with the "Smoke-um Dope-um crowd".  More like the hang out with   
   >other engineers at lunch on Friday and have one beer.   
   >   
      
   Yeah.  I really don't know who this idiot thinks he's talking to or   
   just what his own background is, but I'm betting he's still living in   
   Mom's basement.   
      
   I made a pretty good living as an engineer for over 30 years, so this   
   moron's opinion is merely mildly humorous.   
      
   >   
   >> and moronic "Lets build a STEEL PLANT on Mars"   
   >   
   >That wasn't me, but there is nothing fundamental which prevents doing   
   >such a thing.   
   >   
      
   And AT SOME POINT you're going to want to do that and many other   
   things.   
      
   >   
   >> try building one in the USA first, extremly hard to do because of all   
   >> the regulations,   
   >   
   >Mars is going to have the same regulations then?   
   >   
   >> and now you want to go pollute a entire pristeen planet ?   
   >   
   >Who said anything about releasing waste from the process to pollute the   
   >planet?   
   >   
      
   And who cares if we do?  This guy really does belong in the basement   
   of his Mom's cave gnawing on bushes.   
      
   >   
   >> Space Elevator too ?   
   >   
   >Once the materials are good enough and can be produced economically in   
   >the quantities needed, why hell not?  In the long run it would be a lot   
   >better than chemical propulsion.   
   >   
      
   Space elevators make great thought experiments, but they're unlikely   
   to happen for a long, long time (if ever).   
      
      
   --   
   "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable   
    man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,   
    all progress depends on the unreasonable man."   
                                         --George Bernard Shaw   
      
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