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To: Alberta's Child

I voted DJT also, but I totally disagree with your appraisal of manned space exploration.

Don’cha wish Queen Isabella had saved all the money she spent on Columbus’ failed attempt to find another passage to India? What CC accomplished could just as well have been done by fleets of unmanned tiny wooden sailing craft, at a far cheaper price. Just think of all the fun kids would have had then!

So it is for unmanned space probes.


17 posted on 12/04/2016 10:54:24 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

There’s a big difference between human exploration of a terrestrial location like the New World and human exploration of space. If Christopher Columbus had landed in what is now North America and found that there is no oxygen here, I’m going to out on a limb here and speculate that it would be uninhabited today.


19 posted on 12/04/2016 11:45:09 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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