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Re: Duh uh again
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Mark says: Maybe because bulky combersome suits with restricted vision and reduced sense of touch make even simple tasks much more difficult.

BD says: Apollo astronauts already proved this with real equipment. C'mon Mark, its theatre for media attention and selling books -- nothing more. I agree real science is being done at Haughton Crater -- but not by those in the canvas space suits, rather the people studying the cater itself and the myriad of fossils surrounding the area.

Mark says: But I guess it takes that rare commodity common sense to come to grips with that rational. The whole point is to test equipment and protocols while simulating that operational barrier.

BD: Plywood and canvas equipment for testing operational barriers? As I said, all this has been done for the past sixty years in Antarctica. Why bother unless you just want publicity for book sales etc?

BD

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