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>My main question is about "should be" (?)
>We have enough unsolved problems here on Earth. Can we really afford
>spending large resources on this?

Alex,

Any nation state will find trouble rationalizing expensive science. Personally it is very satisfying to know that a fellow human or robot has done the near impossible by performing science directly on bodies beyond Earth. I even feel proud for the robots which is strange upon self reflection.

Greg Rudzinski

[NavList] Re: Manned Venus Flyby
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2 Sep 2012 14:40
Greg,
I understand that I touched a topic which is very far away from the list
scope:

> This would have been as cool as walking on the Moon. It could have been
> done at reasonable cost but the 70's were recessionary times.

Recessionary for all 40 years since then? Well, perhaps...

> It seems to me that a manned Venus flyby should be done before an attempt
> at Mars.

My main question is about "should be" (?)
We have enough unsolved problems here on Earth. Can we really afford
spending large resources on this?

Alex.

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