SeaAndSky
Senior Registered
Hi Cyrus,
Since I've gotten myself back on the topic of future space exploration and settlement, I found out something I didn't know recently about the two Billionaires in hot competition at the moment. Everyone knows Musk is a planetary settlement guy, with his eyes fixed on Mars. What I didn't know was that Bezos is a space colony guy, who looks ahead to the founding of giant rotating space colonies, etc. Both have the Moon in their plans in terms of resources, but I think our moon is especially important to Bezos (as it was to O'Neill, the primary developer of the plan and concepts behind space colonies), as a source of raw materials and resources located very near to the mother planet. Anyhow, I hope that I live to see them both succeed. I like both options, though my best chance to hike on Mars, or enjoy a verdant paradise in a space colony, will probably have to wait for another lifetime (assuming I come back again ). Of course, if the planet gets seriously blasted by nukes, asteroids, solar flares, pole shifts, alien invaders, etc. etc.--any return (and the foregoing colonies in space or on Mars) may be delayed indefinitely.
Cordially,
S&S
Since I've gotten myself back on the topic of future space exploration and settlement, I found out something I didn't know recently about the two Billionaires in hot competition at the moment. Everyone knows Musk is a planetary settlement guy, with his eyes fixed on Mars. What I didn't know was that Bezos is a space colony guy, who looks ahead to the founding of giant rotating space colonies, etc. Both have the Moon in their plans in terms of resources, but I think our moon is especially important to Bezos (as it was to O'Neill, the primary developer of the plan and concepts behind space colonies), as a source of raw materials and resources located very near to the mother planet. Anyhow, I hope that I live to see them both succeed. I like both options, though my best chance to hike on Mars, or enjoy a verdant paradise in a space colony, will probably have to wait for another lifetime (assuming I come back again ). Of course, if the planet gets seriously blasted by nukes, asteroids, solar flares, pole shifts, alien invaders, etc. etc.--any return (and the foregoing colonies in space or on Mars) may be delayed indefinitely.
Cordially,
S&S