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I think I'd be willing to try a Mars trip once my kids were grown. 50-something year old Snoopy, along with a bunch of other 50-somethings, on a 5 year voyage (or a little longer depending on the Aldrin Cycler schedule). Ultimate retirement trip.
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The Earth Mars Cyclers are hardly an original idea. The real key is to get much better at building carbon nanotube cables so we can build a space elevator. Once that happens, getting lots of mass into space becomes cheaper by orders of magnitude.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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Aldrin's innovation was calculating a cycler that makes a 2-year roundtrip rather than the others calculated that were 4-year roundtrips. Double the cost-efficiency.Originally posted by pchang View PostI came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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well, we are fellow alumni (even from the same major).Originally posted by DanS View Post“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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