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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: A "big" PC (compared to a "smart" phone).
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:44:53 -0400
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rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:41:03 -0500, chrisv wrote:
>
>> rbowman wrote:
>> 
>>>While I enjoy sci-fi novels involving space travel I sometimes wonder
>>>what we've gotten out of the programs.
>> 
>> Maybe it made sense to go the moon, back then.  But IMO the current
>> programs to the moon and/or Mars are simply colossal wastes of money.
>> 
>> Mars is *incredible* idiocy.
>
> Not quite as bad as Venus. The Soviets seemed focused on it and had quite 
> a few successful soft landings. They got enough data to conclude the 
> surface temperature was close to a balmy 900 F and the clouds were mostly 
> sulfuric or phosphoric acid droplets. Home sweet home.
>
> As far as other systems, the technology doesn't exist outside of the wu-wu 
> land of wormholes in fiction. 

Establishing a base on the Moon could make sense.

As long as they don't unearth (unmoon) a tall black monolith.

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