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Ray Bradbury's Reasons to Go to Mars
An anonymous reader writes "Ray Bradbury's testimony to the Presidential blue-ribbon Commission, 'Moon to Mars and Beyond', covers a range of rather optimistic space-related topics, including why three Italians should be the first on Mars. But at age 83, Bradbury's next book, entitled 'Too Soon From the Cave, Too Far From the Stars' seems to set an overall vision that this is an in-between generation caught between the brutal and primitive and the advanced."
Why go to Mars, except maybe to have someone ON SITE to push the "RESET" button??
= Grow a brain...
'Too Soon From the Cave, Too Far From the Stars'
Yeah, much too soon. One minute you're an ape triumphantly hurtling a bone into the air under the theme of 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', and next thing you know, the bone turns into an orbiting satellite in the year 2001. Also, you've become human and there's this weird monolith on the moon.
Talk about culture shock ...
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
Except a largish cometary impact.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
"If we can find any living relatives of Columbus, and Caboto, and Verrazzano - wouldn't that be remarkable if we could send them on the first manned rocket to Mars."
Descendants of Columbus?! Oh sure, so we're going to send out another white man to treat the native Martians as slaves. Great idea!
yes poets, management consultants, hairdressers, telephone sanitisers. Send the lot of em.
This is a manual signature virus. Copy to your signiture file and help me spread.
Nothing will stop man from seeking adventures and knowledge.
Nothing, perhaps, except marriage.
"Honey, I'm going out to explore Mars."
"Not before you clean out the garage.
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
including why three Italians should be the first on Mars