From: David N. Barnett 

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:57:18 +0100, Phil Payne
 wrote in message
:

| I don't think human beings - at least the carbon-based versions - belong
in | space at all. We should leave it to our steel and silicon successors,
for | whom a thousand-year journey to the stars would represent mild
boredom.

Journeying to the stars is pointless (except for spreading our seed)
without faster-than-light travel.  Unless and until that breakthrough is
made, I see no harm in exploring the solar system, if only to keep our
space chops exercised.

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