JFerio Wrote:Hence, one would expect much more of the interplanetary traffic between the outer planets would be composed predominately of larger craft, certainly large enough that one can stretch one's legs and walk during the trip. Most Fen would prefer to travel in something on the scale of a passenger bus at the smallest if they have to regularly traverse areas between the Belt and Saturn. It doesn't take more than one multi-day trip where your entire universe consists of the interior of your Mini Cooper to drive that point home that being cooped up like that sucks."Yes, I know somebody turned a cabin cruiser into a spaceship with some wondergoop. Are you sure you want to do the same thing to your car?"
"I know I want to go into space."
"But can you stay seated for hours? There aren't any rest stops between here and Mars."
"Eimi's got a point, Uncle Noah."
"Fine. We won't do what everybody else is doing. We'll build a 'real' spaceship. It'll take longer, and your father's going to wonder what we're doing ..."
- Eimi Scott, Noah Scott Anderson, and Charles Anderson, January 2008, before designing the Epsilon Blade
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012