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   From: bondage@frontiernet.net   
      
   Matthew Montchalin wrote:   
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   > Jeff Findley wrote:   
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   > |news:1102947469.283431.146290@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...   
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   > |> Kent Paul Dolan wrote:   
   > |> > But, is it strong enough to survive being shoved?   
   > |>   
   > |> The ISS is regularly shoved by its own rockets, the shuttle, and   
   > |> resupply vessels.   
   > |   
   > |Tiny little "shoves" to boost its orbit by a few miles.  I have a   
   > |gut feeling that "shoves" of this magnitude would take a *long* time   
   > |to get ISS to Mars.   
   >   
   > What's wrong with a 50 year one-way trip?   
      
      
      How much technology do you know, that will function (or remain   
   dormant, and 'wake up' fully functional) for 50 years? Espically the   
   mechanical stuff?   
      
      In fifty years, it might be greeted upon arrival by tourists at the   
   first Mars theme park....   
      
      ('Generation Travel' interstellar flights suffer from the same   
   problem...an astounding need for reliability where re-supply is   
   impossible, and a need to not use flight times so long, that technology   
   development in the interim doesn't produce ships that get to the   
   destination ahead of you...   
      
      
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