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.
No technological problems for space travel but some nasty biological ones. The human body really does not like weightlessness or radiation.
ReplyDeleteI 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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