From: ken123@xtra.co.nz   
      
   "Ool"  wrote in message   
   news:btmojp$vde$04$1@news.t-online.com...   
   > "Stanislaw Sidor"  schrieb im Newsbeitrag   
   news:btkpsr$k6i$2@nemesis.news.tpi.pl...   
   > > Newsuser "Manfred Bartz"  wrote ...   
   >   
   > > > Personally I think the Beagle mission had a better and more ambitious   
   > > > science package.  They were going to look for past and present life,   
   > > > not just at a few rocks in search of past water activity.  Oh well,   
   > > > maybe a few missions down the track we'll get serious....  :/   
   >   
   > > Do you think, that SETI is a 'good science'? :)   
   >   
   > Yeah!  All these "Close Encounters" type missions, and in all   
   > this time, when was the last time we had a rover roam the Moon?   
   > That's a place whose resources could actually help us on Earth--   
   > solve our energy problems and all that.  And it would be the   
   > ideal jumping board to the rest of the Solar System, if we were   
   > able to build and launch rockets from up there.   
   >   
   > ("Aluminum, silicon, oxygen, low gravity and lots of solar ener-   
   > gy to be had..."  *That's* music to my ears!  As opposed to:   
   > "Ancient fossilized microbes found on meteorite--maybe."  So   
   > what, even if they were??)   
      
   I'm not aware that we've run low on Al, Si or O2 just yet. There's also a   
   bit of solar energy available in this half of the world. If you really want   
   to go into space to get it, go to earth orbit, no need to go to the moon   
   (much longer power cord!).   
      
   Ken   
      
      
   >   
   > What's the deal with Mars if we haven't even built a base on the   
   > Moon yet?  Why do I get the feeling space exploration is funded   
   > by people who get their idea of what's important from the head-   
   > lines of the National Enquirer?   
   >   
   > What's the deal with trying to find life out there?  I mean, it   
   > still doesn't mean that *we* could live there, and that's all   
   > that counts!   
   >   
      
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