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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."
Is very mineral rich. Definitely a good reason to go there.
... why would you even bother reading this banal junk? Just check out the rest of their site. Most of it's garbage!
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Bradbury's next book... seems to set an overall vision that this is an in-between generation caught between [sic] the brutal and primitive and the advanced.
When discussing two things, use "between". When discussing three or more things, use "among". And when discussing my tendency to place periods and commas outside the quotation marks, acknowledge my support for consistency with the colon and semicolon. But I digress.
How can you be "between" three things? Between specifically means that there is object A on one side and object B on the other. If there are more than three sides, or other objects on top and bottom or in front and back, then you are among said objects, not between them.
I'm afraid Mr. Bradbury is out of his gourd! The whole 'three Italians' idea is a little too much symbolism for me. The only good reason to send some Italians to Mars first is so that there will be pizza ready by the time the rest of us get there. :)