WAS: Re: Mission to Mars DEVOLVING INTO SST...

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> the economic effects would be awful.

This is one of those topics that can, as we all know, go on and on and on and
on and on and on......

Without trying to further the argument HERE, I make mention of:

http://www.kentaurus.com/troopers.htm

Which is a site dedicated to this very argument. I read it, agreed with some
bits, not with others. I don't endorse it in any way other than to say that
for those interested in this debate, it's an interesting read.