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- From: amon@elegabalus.cs.qub.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: Lunar "colony" reality check, part 2
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:10:09 GMT
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- -* Unlike the intrepid Biosphereans, lunar astronauts will
- - not be able to cheat and come back to civilization to
- - find good medical care. In a lunabago will be found
- - little more than a part-time doctor and a first-aid kit.
-
- I seem to remember seeing this same line before and my reply is the
- same. It would be criminal not to insist on someone losing a finger tip
- in order to keep the experiment pure. We know the answer to the question
- for colonists, lunar, asteroidal or otherwise... They lose the finger
- tip and might even die from complications. That is the price you pay and
- one you had better accept. Anyone who can't do so can stay in their
- comfy earthworm-city condominium with a nearby LifeFlite to rush them to
- the Trauma Center.
-
- -* Submarines get to surface every month or more, and can come back to
-
- - port for food & sex. Nobody has a "submarine colony", even though
- - it would be far less expensive and more functional than a lunar
-
- - "colony".
-
- Wrong. John Roberts is correct. I had an office mate who was
- ex-hunter-killer. Hunter-Killer subs surface now and then. Strategic
- boats go out, dive deep and stay there for the entire tour unless there
- is an emergency... Oh,yeah, they have had incidents like burst appendix
- when they surfaced and had the crewman taken off. Guess they weren't
- being serious enough about the Cold War :-) Seriously though, it was
- (is?) a very deadly game. Near collisions at depth were not all that
- uncommon. The USSR boats couldn't hear the US ones even when they were
- almost literally on their tail. Sometimes they would suddenly reverse
- direction...
-
- Missile boats don't leave station until the next boat comes out and is
- sure it has no tails.
-