XPost: sci.space.policy   
   From: joe@strout.net   
      
   In article <4017496e.201144726@news.eircom.net>,   
    wallacethinmintr@eircom.net (Russell Wallace) wrote:   
      
   > On 24 Jan 2004 06:30:13 -0800, alexterrell@yahoo.com (Alex Terrell)   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >Several things they should do immediately. One of these is to give a   
   > >few million $ in research grants to some University Chemistry   
   > >department to test methods for processing lunar regolith.   
   >   
   > I hate to rain on people's parade, but isn't the _first_ step to put   
   > some mice in orbit, centrifuged to 1/6 G, to check whether it's   
   > intrinsically possible for people to live on the moon in the first   
   > place?   
      
   No.  People have stayed in microgravity for extended periods of time;   
   staying on the Moon will be no worse than that (and may be quite a bit   
   better, for all we know).   
      
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