07-03-2008, 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by hot dragon
it might be. in thousands of years time, future humans might be asking "how many probes did they send to mars before they started terraforming it ?" and they might be shocked that we did it so soon or even tried at all. we are surprised today at what our ancestors did, but we do not live in the era they lived, and have hindsight and centuries of technological development to inform our opinions today.
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Originally Posted by Oregon Elephant
Sure it is, both are to lands that are not fully known to us, and both had trips that took months to complete each way. Also, for both, the trips were extremely dangerous.
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But the Europeans knew that the "new world" could, and did, support human life.
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