🚀 go-pugleaf

John Sparks responding to Keith Lofstrom states
     "Or if you need a pratical reason ... how about the old:
  I would rather be in a (self sufficeint) Mars colony when Earth
  decided to blow itself up with the big bomb.  besides, arguing about what
  we get out of space travel is fruitless . . "
I agree, but given nanotechnology, why settle for less than what we really
want, interstellar exploration.  The way NASA does things, nanotechnology
may be much closser than a return to the moon.  If anyone want to see it
I can post or email a 30k byte article called Megascale Engineering and
issue invitations to a party on the far side of the galaxy in about 200,000
Command:try
years.

 Keith Henson (a founder of the lamented L5 Society.)