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Re: Titan probe
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:59 pm
by fevrd
> I'm sure us humans will stifle their developement if we have
> any part in it
They'll only be bacteria. Probably not worth making them sign free trade agreements.
Re: Titan probe
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:03 pm
by fevrd
Also Titan by Stephen Baxter.
Re: Titan probe
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:06 pm
by fevrd
No-one questioned Columbus about the usefulness. It was a money-making scheme that would have paid off handsomely if the dipstick theory about the size of the globe he subscribed to had turned out to be correct.
Re: Titan probe
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:10 pm
by fevrd
> I don't need some expedition to Saturn to tell me that the
> Earth is going the Venus way,just common sense says if we keep
> on with out wanton use of the earths resources we'll come a
> cropper
Coming a cropper is not the same as going the Venus way. We'd all be dead long before we got past the point of no return towards the Venus scenario. Bankrupt and incapable of doing more damage even before that
Re: Titan probe
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:14 pm
by fevrd
> We need to kick that religion bollox into touch before we can
> even think of moving on as a species.
Blimey, that's a bit sweeping. Who would decide where we go?