----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Bostwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The only exceptions I would make would be for people willing to help > terraform and colonize other habitable bodies in the solar system. > I'm pretty sure Mars' surface could be terraformed to the point where > people could live and produce food there without life support, with > the right approach to releasing the CO2 locked up in the regolith and > using a series of introduced plant species to convert the CO2 to > breathable oxygen and jump-start biosphere growth. With a controlled > population reduction, the economy could probably support a pretty > massive spaceflight/colonization initiative .. I'd like to see Mars colonised too, but it is not a solution to overpopulation. I can't see it ever being possible to send people to Mars at a faster rate than they are being born. Regards, Wayne. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
