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hunter

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1. This is interesting from a purely scientific point of view...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Aug 16, 2024, 05:32 PM

Aug 2024

... but I don't think humans will be mining water on Mars anytime soon, if ever.

There will come a day, possibly in my lifetime, when there are no humans in space and no real plans to send any more humans into space.

Star Trek is fantasy.

But if we do manage to hold our current world civilization together, despite the increasing intensity of environmental catastrophes, there will still be plenty of exciting space exploration, all of it accomplished by increasingly sophisticated robots.

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This is interesting from a purely scientific point of view... hunter Aug 2024 #1

yep. what happens when yer going a gazillion mph and hit a large rock... or even a small one lol nt msongs Aug 2024 #2