Re: [FT universe]

In message <199809160735.RAA03634@strait.ml.csiro.au>
	  Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@marine.csiro.au> wrote:

> For instance if you look at the costings
> of just one of the privately funded dutch explorations (during the age
of
> sail), which went looking for tradeable items (for instance the spices
from
> Indonesia etc), you'll find that it comes out at an amount greater
than
> what NASA spent on the Voyager missions.

Slight difference in that the Dutch were funding sailing expeditions
at a time when sailing was very common. 'All' they were proposing was
going a bit further, using tried and trusted technology.

Currently, to start any big scale space expeditions requires cutting
edge technology (assuming you want to go colonise somewhere), which
hasn't really been tried and tested, It not only requires lots of
money, it requires spending that money on things most people don't
really understand.

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