http://www.starstryder.com/2010/01/05/charlie-boldens-nasa-policy-talk-first-coverage/ Blogging one sidereal day at a time Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:26:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.starstryder.com/2010/01/05/charlie-boldens-nasa-policy-talk-first-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-28323 llewelly Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:05:33 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/?p=1277#comment-28323 No planet humans might ever visit will have giant sexy blue aliens. To the scientifically illiterate majority, Mars, Mercury, Venus (ha!), and worst of all, the Moon, are all dreadfully boring and disappointing places. For every non-geek, a humanned mission to any of these places would be a big letdown. The public thinks robots are boring too, but they're not disappointing; nobody expected them to do anything terribly interesting any. And they're cheap. The cost gap between humanned missions and robots will only grow, and public interest in humanned missions will only shrink. Humanned space flight has no future. I wish it were otherwise, but astro<b>naught</b> is 100% right. No planet humans might ever visit will have giant sexy blue aliens. To the scientifically illiterate majority, Mars, Mercury, Venus (ha!), and worst of all, the Moon, are all dreadfully boring and disappointing places. For every non-geek, a humanned mission to any of these places would be a big letdown. The public thinks robots are boring too, but they’re not disappointing; nobody expected them to do anything terribly interesting any. And they’re cheap. The cost gap between humanned missions and robots will only grow, and public interest in humanned missions will only shrink. Humanned space flight has no future. I wish it were otherwise, but astronaught is 100% right.

]]> http://www.starstryder.com/2010/01/05/charlie-boldens-nasa-policy-talk-first-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-28318 Daniel Preston Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:42:14 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/?p=1277#comment-28318 Never trust a poloitician however, i have fingers and toes crossed Never trust a poloitician however, i have fingers and toes crossed

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