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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Shielding spacecraft against cosmic radiation
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:31:02 +1100
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On 15/03/2024 5:47 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 07:09:47 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote: 
>> On a sunny day (Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:18:18 -0700) it happened john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote in <34h1vihp32geb2olkcscfksbr8k0bdgdmu@4ax.com>:
>>> On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 06:22:55 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:


> This is
> 
> https://www.barrons.com/news/protect-earth-instead-of-colonising-mars-obama-says-1df83940
> 
> the most sensible thing I can recall Obama ever saying.

John Larkin thinks that Trump has "commons sense". He probably couldn't 
process Obama's better ideas.

> Let's feed and educate a billion kids instead of putting victims on
> the moon or on Mars.

"As well as" would be a better choice than "instead of". The two 
activities aren't mutually exclusive, and you probably need to feed and 
educate a lot more kids to get enough engineers to get to the point of 
being able to put a colony on Mars.

In the US, at the moment, wealth is more heritable than height.

https://www.zmescience.com/research/social-mobility-inheritance-064654/

What this means in practice is that rich dumb kids are more likely to 
get the benefit of a university education that the poor smart kids who 
could do more with it.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney