--You need to look closely at your initial comments.--
"In all honesty, the Moon probably isn't the best place to set up the first asteroid tracking base (I'm biased towards the EML-1 point for its long term utility, but that's another immensely long post), but Mars certainly is no better,
if not a whole lot worse."
"As if the early Martians are really going to be at all concerned with any kind of astronomy! They'll all be looking down..."
"Face it, y'all are arguing agendas...Once that fact is acknowledged, you can then argue whether it's more important in a broader context to
search for asteroids from an offworld platform
or to
search for life on Mars."
"I would cast my vote in favour of planetary protection. Whether it's done from LEO, from GEO, from EML-1, or from the Moon (what's that faint chorus? Oh yes, or from the asteroids), or some combination of the above, it's far better to do so from above the Earth's atmosphere...
(or from a Martian base, snicker)."
"So really the arguments for Mars are easier large-scale (? or only the chosen few?) colonization, potential for previous or existing life, and water."
"It's not just about these things, or delta-V, or 16% vs. 38% g, or dust on Mars vs. dust on Moon, or forward/cross/back contamination.
It's about a comprehensive, realistic strategy for advancing our presence into space, one that adds value (and NOT necessarily just $ value) at each step of the way."
Space/Science » in reply to re: Ya Think?
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- You're right, Mark, it is a mess...
- Some recent EML-1 Comments
- re: And here
- Sorting the mess out...
- Digging Through For Some Key Issues Like Delta V
- I Recommend A Writing Class