Comments on: Planetary Society town hall tour hits Atlanta

By: Michael Mealling

Michael Mealling — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:47:15 +0000

BTW, the meeting was being recorded and the intent seemed to be to post the audio of the meeting but I cant’ seem to find that on the Planetary Society website anywhere.

By: Michael Mealling

Michael Mealling — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:17:09 +0000

IMHO, Lon is doing a good job of listening but Mr. Nye seems to really want to drive this to his personal need to send more robots to Mars.

By: Michael Mealling

Michael Mealling — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:54:50 +0000

There does seem to be consensus that its not juts robots, though. I am getting some support for the economic motivation being the only thing that can make this sustainable.

By: Michael Mealling

Michael Mealling — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:38:19 +0000

OK, I’m here. And I just made the statement that for me a Vision would be 10% of the US GDP being produced in space and 1% of the US population living permanently in space. Yea, that’s ambitious and 10% if a hell of a lot. But that’s a Vision.

I just asked the participants how many people expected to fly into space in their lifetime and only 5 people raised their hands. I then asked how many people expected to live permanently in space in their lifetime and _I_ was the only person to raise my hand. To me that is very sad.

Now we’re doing the robots vs humans debate.

By: Michael Mealling

Michael Mealling — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:29:26 +0000

BTW, I plan on being there tonight. I’ll try and twitter the event if I can.