I was going to comment on this article:

http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/The_Appeal_Of_Mars_999.html

But I’ve been to busy at work and at home to really put together anything as of yet, since I wanted to post pictures along with my argument. I’ll have to get to it later.

I did, however, want to note these two articles also recently posted on the MNSFS mailing list:

http://www.rocketryplanet.com/content/view/192/38/

And:

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/searagon.htm

For those of you who don’t know the NSS is building a grass roots response to the LoST legislative action. NSS of course being the National Space Society. LoST of course being the new Law of the Sea Treaty that puts Private Property on celestial bodies in Serious Jeopardy.

You can read more for your self here:

http://www.nss.org/legislative/

This was recently posted on the MNSFS - Minnesota Space Frontier Society mailing list and I had a response that was interesting so I thought I would post it here, hopefully to drum up some conversation.