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Fred Sanders

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6. It is the unimaginable distances that overwhelm the technology...the fastest manmade object to
Thu Oct 30, 2014, 01:38 PM
Oct 2014

date has gone to 10 miles a second....a fraction of the speed required to ever even think about colonizing Mars, and living in a tent outside of which you instantly die is not colonization.

Time and distance, it will take a theoretical revolution in travel to make it happen....not in our lifetime.

I appreciate the enthusiasm, but.......

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