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Post by **Loredoctor** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:11 am

www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn85 ... news_rss20

Post by **Dervorin** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:22 am

Now that is interesting. Hands up all volunteers for Mars!

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:11 pm

A decade? Damn. You keep hearing about these things, and want so much to see it happen, but everything always seems to take much longer than people expect.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:22 am

Murrin wrote:A decade? Damn. You keep hearing about these things, and want so much to see it happen, but everything always seems to take much longer than people expect.

Yeah.

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:48 am

It's that humans have problems planning for the long term, that's why. They're almost always limited, (consciously or not) by their lifespans. What they should have been doing is planning centuries ahead...for the benefit of future humans.

Instead, they're so caught up in the here and now that they have trouble realising not only how limited it is, but how ephemeral.

--A

Post by **Loredoctor** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:28 am

Avatar wrote:Instead, they're so caught up in the here and now that they have trouble realising not only how limited it is, but how ephemeral.

--A

Post of the year.

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:50 am

Thanks. Remember that when it's time for the Watchies again.

--A

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