[continued from previous message]   
      
   definitely think that many people have too rosy a view of how easy   
   space colonization will be, partly based on people like Musk, but   
   also--let's face it--partly based on believing what they had read   
   in science fiction books as a child, or see in movies and on   
   television shows.  They believe in the spaciousness of the   
   Starship Enterprise rather than the cramped quarters of the ISS.   
   [-ecl]   
      
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                                        Evelyn C. Leeper   
                                        evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
      
              Einstein: "God does not play dice with the universe."   
              Hawking: "Not only does God play dice with the universe,   
              but sometimes He throws them where they cannot be seen."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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