It hasn't occured to him that the fault lies not in the way the message is conveyed, it lies in the message.

Plain fact is that as more and more people see Mars, they realize that Mars is not a place that can be turned into a second Earth. That's one of the big reasons why membership in public space societies is off. Another reason is the lack of reality in at least one space society's thinking, its inability ot understand the scale of space engineering, and its own subsequent inability to properly address the role of government in space.

Once you get past the fantasies, you begin to understand that space has real uses. Right now we have communication satellites, remote sensing satellites, zero gravity research and production facilities, and probes which provide information for the modeling of weather and geological processes on Earth.

Within a very short while, the general public will begin to understand the severe threat that asteroid and cometary impact present to mankind. One solution to a part of this very dangerous problem may be seen at

http://www.geocities.com/epgrondine

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