"It is good to know that you have been unShanghaied and are now Peking back into the thread.
And the reports that you may leave again are filling us with Malaisia. Rest assured, it wasn't the same without you. "
ROTF.......I did indeed miss your wit ol pal!!
I noticed the space trip plans are proceeding on course.
We fine-tune our plans from time to time. Mid-course corrections, as it were.
NASA has made worse investments than to review these threads. Substitute Space Shuttle main fuel tanks for our "enclosures," pack them with the comforts of home, and lots of green growing things, and put in a small crew of from six to ten people, and you'd have a legitimate Mars mission.
Nothing will substitute for the Nuclear Rockets. NASA may as well shout that fact out loud right now.
Hey, Stranger!
XO