Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
There are ways, even now, around weightlessness and radiation. And, I happen to feel, as much as we like Hubble, Spirit and Opportunity...if there were no human exploration, then soon even those efforts would vanish. No Buck Rogers, No Bucks.
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No technological problems for space travel but some nasty biological ones. The human body really does not like weightlessness or radiation.
I suspect robots are the most practical way forward for the immediate future.
John
There are ways, even now, around weightlessness and radiation. And, I happen to feel, as much as we like Hubble, Spirit and Opportunity...if there were no human exploration, then soon even those efforts would vanish. No Buck Rogers, No Bucks.
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