To: null and void
It would exceed the current lifespan of our civilization to get it into position, iow, it wouldn’t be functioning, and if it were, would be long forgotten.
7 posted on
04/16/2016 12:37:06 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
15 years for the first 100 AU, and we’d be getting data every day for that 15 years.
Your reasoning sounds oddly like the liberals who opposed the Keystone pipeline (and before that North Slope drilling) because ‘we wouldn’t see a drop of oil for 5 years’.
We can be at 1000 AU in less time than it took to build a medieval Cathedral. Did that delay make their efforts unworthy?
9 posted on
04/16/2016 12:44:50 PM PDT by
null and void
("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
To: SunkenCiv
But I will grant that 15 years might exceed the lifetime of our civilization...
10 posted on
04/16/2016 12:46:37 PM PDT by
null and void
("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
To: SunkenCiv
...especially if we lose our ability to dream.
11 posted on
04/16/2016 12:47:25 PM PDT by
null and void
("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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