Alex G -- no point bringing 'em back -- fatally dosed by radiation by the time they'd get there, might last a coupla months exploring and researching once they got there before falling into the eternal sleep -- which kinda wipes out the whole settle/reproduce/colonize thing as well
we aren't gonna be the life form from this planet to go elsewhere and survive and thrive -- that life form will be our machines -- which will also replace us here -- sooner rather than later -- process already well under way
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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