Re: (Off Topic) The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin

On Fri, 05 Jul 2024 08:05:55 -0700, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

You forgot the treadmill, to produce an equivalent of gravity.

Inside the wine bottles would be rotating cylindrical habitats.

The first step is to colonize the Moon. And I mean /colonize/, not
just establish a five-person outpost.

1/6 gravity isn't microgravity, but it's not what we're adapted for.
So after there's _one_ orbiting colony with a rotating part with full
gravity, I'm expecting they will mine the Moon by remote control, to
the extent that AI can't do the mining autonomously.

Again, though, I'm being _pessimistic_ about what humans can endure in
order to show we can still explore space anyways.

John Savard