Re: A "big" PC (compared to a "smart" phone).

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On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:41:03 -0500, chrisv wrote:
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rbowman wrote:
 

While I enjoy sci-fi novels involving space travel I sometimes wonder
what we've gotten out of the programs.

 
Maybe it made sense to go the moon, back then.  But IMO the current
programs to the moon and/or Mars are simply colossal wastes of money.
 
Mars is *incredible* idiocy.

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Not quite as bad as Venus. The Soviets seemed focused on it and had quite
a few successful soft landings. They got enough data to conclude the
surface temperature was close to a balmy 900 F and the clouds were mostly
sulfuric or phosphoric acid droplets. Home sweet home.
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As far as other systems, the technology doesn't exist outside of the wu-wu
land of wormholes in fiction.

Establishing a base on the Moon could make sense.

As long as they don't unearth (unmoon) a tall black monolith.

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