<OT> oh, my

[Matthew Carpenter]

David A. Bandel wrote:

>Goverment (NASA) blazed a trail.  So did Louis and Clark.  It's what
>came after that counts.  So far with NASA, it's nothing.  After Louis
>and Clark a lot of government programs happened to open up the West. 
>Space hasn't yet been opened up.  That will happen after scramjets or
>something else allows affordable travel.  This will have to be overcome
>to colonize the moon and eventually Mars.
>  
>
And like colonization of old, the first trips to the "new land" are 
frought with danger.  Only with more travel and some work and sacrifice 
was safe-travel assured... and even then we still have more automobile 
accidents than airplane accident deaths... and I would imagine the auto- 
to space- accidents are in a similiar comparison pattern.

Stop talking about danger.  Just ask for volunteers.  I would place bets 
on the availability of many individuals who would be willing to take the 
risk... some of them are called Astronauts.