16th June 2008, 8:50 AM
Well noted. Politicians in general never seem to think beyond their term in office. A hundred year long project like terraforming is going to be VERY difficult to ever actually sustain through the ENTIRE hundred years with that in mind...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)