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"Alain" <ele### [at] netscape net> wrote in message
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> somebody nous illumina en ce 2008-09-26 10:44 -->
> > atmosphere of Earth has definite benefits. Studying the atmosphere of
Venus
> > has little, if any. Studying the atmosphere of a planet 20 LY away (when
> > such time comes) is completely useless and wasteful. Similar scales
exist in
> > any endavour. With particle physics, that scale of practicality
correlates
> > more or less with energy.
> Studying the athmosphere of a planet 20 light years away can have some
benefit.
> It can tell us if life can exist there, then if WE can live there. Then,
it can
> tell us if there is a civilisation on that planet. Then, several years
later, we
> could send peoples there and establish a colony, or establish some
commercial
> relationship with that planet's residents.
It's hard to argue with fantasy like that.
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